Governor Cláudio Castro (PL) was re-elected for the second term with 58.22% of valid votes, defeating federal deputy Marcelo Freixo (PSB), the runner-up, with 27.67% of valid votes. After the victory on his Instagram account, Castro posted: “Thank you very much Rio. We won. Rio will continue to improve.”
Speaking to voters, Castro first thanked God for all he has done in his life. “I’m sure he helped me and made me grow.” Castro also said that “this victory is a victory of humility, totally pedagogical. At no time did the campaign stop talking about proposals, about what the people wanted to hear”.
The governor-elect also said that “we will have a united Rio”. “From now on I will be the governor of these 17 million from all over Rio de Janeiro. We will fight every day to make a government for everyone. We will create more restaurants for the people, breakfast for the most humble, decentralizing real health. A government that will not be a government of attacks, but of dialogue, of evolution, of growth. The Rio of public safety is valued, especially in the social parts, a police focused on helping the resident”, explained Castro.
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Cláudio Castro monitored the total number of votes in the 92 municipalities of the state of Rio de Janeiro at the Rio Othon Palace Hotel, in the south zone of Rio. Castro entered politics, being elected for the first time as a councilor of Rio and in 2018 he was chosen to compose the ticket of Wilson Witzel to the government of the state of Rio, which had only 1% of the electorate, but who won the current mayor of Rio, Eduardo Paes, for the Guanabara Palace, seat of the state government.
In 2021, Witzel was impeached and Castro took over the state government on May 2, 2021 and ran for re-election, winning in the 1st round.
