Rio Branco City Hall mobilizes 350 employees to collect 50 tons of electoral waste after the first round

🗑️🗳️ Anyone who passed by voting locations in the capital of Acre after the first round of elections could find saints and other campaign materials spread across the floor.

To deal with the dirt left on the streets, Rio Branco City Hall mobilized 350 employees this Monday (5) in a task force to collect electoral waste discarded on roads and public spaces.

According to the Municipal Secretariat for City Care (SMCCI), the teams were divided into 20 groups and began work at around 6 am, with priority given to points with high voter circulation.

According to the ministry, the forecast is to remove around 10 tons of waste per day until next Friday (9), totaling 50 tons.

Santinhos and other campaign materials are collected this Monday (5) by cleaning teams after the first round of elections in Rio Branco — Photo: Archive/Municipal Secretariat for City Care

According to Daniel Silva, in charge of one of the cleaning teams, the work started early in the locations considered strategic.

"The entire janitorial team is at each strategic point, that is, at the points of greatest access during voting. As progress progresses, we will move to other corners", he explained.

The dirt appears precisely after a Sunday in which more than 614 thousand voters were able to vote in Acre. Rio Branco had the largest electorate in the state, with 270,350 people eligible to vote, followed by Cruzeiro do Sul, with 64,167, and Sena Madureira, with 30,905.

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In the first round, Acre had 11 ballot boxes replaced and more than 40 incidents registered by the Federal, Civil, Military and Criminal police, according to a report released by the Regional Electoral Court of Acre (TRE-AC).

Among the records were cases of exit polls, irregular propaganda, threats and suspicion of electoral corruption.

Santinhos and other campaign materials are collected this Monday (5) by cleaning teams after the first round of elections in Rio Branco — Photo: Archive/Municipal Secretariat for City Care

Second round

The election also defined the dispute for the government of Acre in a second round. Mailza Assis (PP) received 218,760 votes, equivalent to 49.76% of valid votes, and Alan Rick (Republicans) had 141,859 votes, or 32.27%. The two will compete again for the position on October 25th.

Mailza Assis Cameli (PP) is 49 years old, born in Mundo Novo (MS), has lived in Acre since he was 20 years old and took charge of the Government of Acre on April 2, after the departure of then governor Gladson Camelí (PP), who left office to run for the Senate in this year's elections. With this, she became the second woman to govern the state in four decades.

Alan Rick Miranda is from Rio Branco, 49 years old and married to Michele Miranda and Pedro's father. He is a journalist, business administrator with a degree in foreign trade and a postgraduate degree in political journalism.

He was elected federal deputy for two consecutive terms, between 2015 and 2023. He was then elected senator of the Republic for Acre in 2022 and is running for state executive for the first time.

Mailza Assis (PP) and Alan Rick (Republicans) — Photo: Lucas Thadeu/Rede Amazônica

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