Luciano Zucco: military trajectory, election as deputy and scenario of electoral indecision in Rio Grande do Sul

Luciano Zucco (Alegrete, 1974) grew up in Serra Gaúcha and later lived and studied in Porto Alegre. A career soldier who graduated from the Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras (AMAN), he served in the Parachute Infantry Brigade, where he specialized as a sniper and jump master.

He has a master's degree in Military Sciences and Strategic Intelligence, with a specialization in Negotiation and Crisis Management and an Executive MBA in Private Security. He served in the Presidency's Institutional Security Office (GSI), participated in official missions in Brazil and abroad, commanded the intelligence of security operations in Complexo do Alemão and was a professor at the Colégio Militar de Porto Alegre.

In 2018, he was elected state deputy with 166,747 votes, the highest vote in RS for the Legislative Assembly. In 2022, he was elected federal deputy with 259,023 votes, again the most voted in the State, this time for the Federal Chamber, where he presided over the MST CPI and was leader of the opposition to the Lula government.

Gauchos entered the official campaign period with one of the most undecided electorates in the country. In a round of research released by Quaest at the end of August, RS had the highest rate of indecision for president of the Republic. It also had the second highest rate of undecided people in the stimulated survey for the state government and was the fourth with the most undecided people in the spontaneous survey, when the candidates are not presented to the interviewee.

The behavior of the electorate reflects a campaign that had difficulty advancing in the interior of the state. A survey carried out by g1 mapped the agendas of the four best-positioned candidates in voting intention polls, whose parties have representation in the National Congress, and shows a campaign concentrated in the Metropolitan Region of Porto Alegre.