Candidates Paulo Dantas (MDB) and Rodrigo Cunha (União) will contest the second round of elections for governor of Alagoas. With 97.18% of the polls counted, Dantas has 46.64% of the valid votes and Cunha, with 26.57% of the valid votes.
The current governor of the state, indirectly elected in May, Dantas, 43, has a degree in business administration. State deputy, he resigned to assume the buffer term as governor of Alagoas, after the resignation of Renan Filho. He has also been mayor of Batalha (AL) for two consecutive terms. Ronaldo Lessa (PDT), current deputy mayor of Maceió, will be the candidate for vice.
Current state senator, Cunha, 41, is a lawyer, with a postgraduate degree in project management and consumer law. He was Procon’s superintendent in Alagoas. He was also a federal deputy for one term, before being elected senator. Born in Arapiraca, the second largest city in the state, he is the son of Ceci Cunha, a federal deputy murdered in 1998. State deputy Jó Pereira (PSDB), 48, is running for vice president.
