Allies of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva swept most of Brazil's cities in weekend local elections, official results released Monday showed. But the mayorships for the biggest metropolises will be decided in a run-off round to be held October 26.
That second round of elections will take place in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Belem and Florianopolis - all cities where no candidate emerged with an absolute majority of ballots. Lula's Workers' Party and its chief coalition ally, the Democratic Movement Party, won eight cities outright in the first round.