Candidate JHC (PL) won the race for mayor of Maceió, with 83.25% of the valid votes. Rafael Brito (MDB) came in second place, with 12.74% of valid votes. 100% of the ballots were counted.
Current mayor of Maceió, João Henrique Holanda Caldas, JHC, from PL, was elected with the banner of continuing the project started in the first administration which, according to him, “revived Maceió’s pride in the city”.
In 2020, he resigned from his mandate in the Chamber of Deputies to assume the seat of the municipal executive. At the time in another party, PSB, JHC defeated federal deputy Alfredo Gaspar de Mendonça (MDB).
JHC, whose running mate is Senator Rodrigo Cunha (Podemos), has two terms on his CV as a federal deputy and one in the state assembly of Alagoas.
In 2022, he exchanged the party for which he was elected at the time, the PSB, for the PL, formally joining the group of former president Jair Bolsonaro. He justified the party change for the projects carried out in Maceió by the federal government. When it was decided to adhere to Bolsonarism, the former party of JHC, the PSB supported the then candidate for president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva at the time.
In 2024, JHC led the electoral campaign with broad favoritism over the main rivals: federal deputy Rafael Brito (PMDB) and former deputy and former councilor Lobão (Solidariedade). In the last electoral debate of the first round, on TV Gazeta de Alagoas, JHC did not even attend. The only two participants, Lobão and Brito, didn’t even dare to criticize each other, slowing down the debate.
Graduate was born in 1987, is married and graduated in law. The re-elected mayor of Maceió followed in the footsteps of his father in politics, who was also a federal deputy, councilor and mayor of Ibateguara. Evangelical, JHC is a member of the International Church of the Grace of God.
