Covid-19: Guilherme Boulos, charismatic candidate for mayor of São Paulo, tested positive
Guilherme Boulos, in June 2018. AFP
Text by: RFI Follow
3 min
The Covid-19 scrambles the cards on the eve of the second round of the Brazilian municipal elections.
Opposed to the outgoing mayor of São Paulo, Bruno Covas, the far left candidate Guilherme Boulos tested positive on Friday, September 27 and was unable to participate in the last debate.
Publicity
Read more
With our correspondent in São Paulo,
Martin Bernard
Guilherme Boulos was a bit of
the sensation of the first round.
Young and charismatic, the leader of the Homeless Movement had outclassed all other left-wing candidates, including the one backed by former President Lula.
Complies já noticiado, testei positivo para covid-19, mesmo não tendo sintomas, e estou em isolamento.
Já pedimos à Globo para o debate ser mantido de forma virtual.
Peço duas coisas: cuidem-se e virem votos até domingo.
A virada depende de cada um de nós!
pic.twitter.com/TkH7TpKTAg
- Guilherme Boulos 50 (@GuilhermeBoulos) November 27, 2020
Between the two rounds, he had succeeded in reducing the gap between him in the polls of the outgoing mayor of São Paulo, the centrist Bruno Covas.
He was counting on a last televised debate to give a last boost.
But the far-left candidate tested positive, a few days after meeting a member of his Socialism and Freedom party, herself a carrier of the coronavirus.
He has no symptoms, according to those around him, but he had to isolate himself.
Guilherme Boulos is not the only candidate to be caught by the virus.
The outgoing mayor of Goiânia, in the center of the country, Maguito Vilela, big favorite to get a second term, has been hospitalized and intubated for ten days.
► To read also: Municipal in Brazil: sanction vote against Jair Bolsonaro
Newsletter
Receive all the international news directly in your mailbox
I subscribe
Follow all the international news by downloading the RFI application
google-play-badge_FR
Brazil
On the same subject
Brazil: first round of municipal elections in a more than heavy atmosphere this Sunday
The Americas press review
In the headlines: Jair Bolsonaro disowned in the first round of municipal elections in Brazil
Municipal in Brazil: setback for candidates supported by President Jair Bolsonaro