Tarcísio de Freitas is re-elected governor of São Paulo with 62.6% of the votes

This Monday (5), Jornal Nacional showed the results of the elections in the states and the Federal District. Starting with São Paulo, the largest electoral college in the country.

Since the beginning of the electoral race, Tarcísio de Freitas, from the Republicans, has led the polls of voting intentions, ahead of second place, former Finance Minister Fernando Haddad, from the PT.

On Sunday (4), the victory was confirmed mathematically at around 7:30 pm. Tarcísio was re-elected with 62.6% of the valid votes, against 36.4% for Haddad. The result of the election in São Paulo marked a record. Tarcísio de Freitas won the highest percentage of a candidate for state government since redemocratization and also the highest number of votes: almost 14.5 million.

Tarcísio de Freitas, from the Republicans, is re-elected governor of SP, the largest electoral college in the country — Photo: Jornal Nacional/ Reproduction

Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas is 51 years old, is an engineer and spent most of his professional career in the Armed Forces and in the federal public service. He was director of Dnit in the Dilma government and Minister of Infrastructure in the Jair Bolsonaro government. Carioca, he transferred his electoral domicile from Brasília to São José dos Campos in 2022 to contest and win the first election for the government of São Paulo.

This Monday (5), he spoke about the priorities for the new term:

"A very big priority in safety and health, which are two of the main concerns of citizens. In health, with much more digitalization, monitoring people more closely, helping municipalities in the issue of basic care. Because we avoid a lot of hospitalizations when we improve, we reinforce basic care. So, we already have a program, which is the incentive for municipal management, but the idea is to amplify it", says Tarcísio de Freitas, from the Republicans, re-elected governor of São Paulo.

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