BRASILIA: Brazil’s Social Democratic Party (PSDB) was unable on Sunday to nominate its presidential candidate for next year’s election after a voting app failed, delaying a decision between main contenders Joo Doria and Eduardo Leite. Hui.
The centre-right party said it decided to hold off voting until a future date, as the app’s failure denied access to many of the 44,700 members registered to vote, including figures such as former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. .
Sao Paulo state governor Doria favors resuming voting this week, while Rio Grande do Sul governor Leite wants to postpone it until February, a spokesman said.
The party will decide when to resume voting at a meeting later on Sunday, a statement said.
The PSDB ruled Brazil during Cardoso’s two terms from 1995–2002, which modernized the economy and initiated social welfare programs that were later continued by leftist governments.
The party’s role in Brazilian politics has diminished and now holds half of the seats it had a decade ago in the Brazilian Congress.
In the 2018 election, won by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro, the PSDB candidate Geraldo Alcamin won only 4.8% of the vote.
The party, which has shifted to the right since coming to power, hopes to raise its profile by choosing a candidate for Bolsonaro and left-wing former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who could be a middle-of-the-road choice in 2022. Is. A comfortable lead in early opinion polls, although he has yet to announce his candidacy.
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