Elections in Bahia: arrest for contempt, death of voter and voting for candidates mark Sunday

During voting this Sunday (4), a 52-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of disrespecting two poll workers at a polling station in Aramari, in the interior of Bahia.

According to the Civil Police, he became angry after being prevented from moving to the front of the line to accompany his 78-year-old mother, who had just voted. Find out more in the report.

While the votes are being counted, we remember what election Sunday was like. Earlier, singer Léo Santana took his 5-year-old daughter Liz to vote with him. The moment was published on social media: "Citizen's role played successfully", he wrote.

A 65-year-old man died after suffering a heart attack this Sunday (4), at a polling place in Cotegipe, in western Bahia. He was identified as Gilson Pereira da Silva. Find out more in the report.

The Senate candidate, Rui Costa (PT), voted this Sunday (4), at Colégio Duque de Caxias, in the Liberdade neighborhood, in Salvador.

Accompanied by party supporters, Rui Costa voted at around 2:30 pm, after waiting in line for more than two hours.

The candidate for the Senate, Angelo Coronel (Republicans) voted this Sunday (4), at Colégio Marízia Maior, in the Stella Maris neighborhood, in Salvador.

Angelo Coronel voted at around 1:30 pm, accompanied by the candidate for governor of Bahia, ACM Neto (União Brasil); the mayor of Salvador, Bruno Reis (União Brasil); his son, the candidate for state deputy Angelo Coronel Filho (Republicans); and his wife, Eleusa Coronel.

The Senate candidate, João Roma (PL), voted this Sunday (4), at the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), in the Canela neighborhood, in Salvador.

João Roma returned around 12pm, accompanied by his wife, Roberta Roma, and his two children, João and Clarice.

Candidate ACM Neto (Uiçao Brasil) voted, this Sunday morning (4), at the Faculty of Administration of the Federal University of Bahia (Ufba), in Salvador. He arrived at the location late in the morning, but only voted at around 12:50 pm.

ACM Neto was accompanied by his wife, Mariana Barreto, his three children, Lívia, Marcela and Antônio Carlos, and the senatorial candidates João Roma (PL) and Angelo Coronel (Republicans).

204 cities in Bahia are under dry law, according to TRE-BA.

More than 200 cities in Bahia will have restrictions or bans on the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the first round of elections, this Sunday (4).

Salvador does not appear on the list released by TRE-BA and, until the last update of this report, no electoral zone in the capital had determined Dry Law. In some cities in the state, whether or not the law is applied depends on determinations made in "Head Municipalities", which define the situation throughout the electoral zone.

See list of cities: glo.bo/9c68ci0

The director general of the Federal Police (PF), Andrei Rodrigues, stated this Sunday (4) that investigations did not identify the possibility of risk or signs of attack plans against embassies in Brasília.

The PF executed two search and seizure warrants on Friday (2) in an investigation into an alleged plan against the United States Embassy in Brazil. Investigators targeted two suspects.

The action occurred after foreign diplomatic representations in Brazil issued security alerts on Friday (2).

"We did not find concrete elements about the existence of risk for any embassy. There was no plan, there was nothing that we identified," said Andrei Rodrigues. (See more)