Sérgio de Oliveira Cabral Santos Filho (born January 27, 1963), is a Brazil

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ian politician

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 and journalist

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.

In the 2006 Brazilian general elections

Brazilian general election, 2006

The 2006 election were marked by the now extinct "verticalization rule", which forced parties to form coalitions on a state level with the same parties with which they were allied nationwide. This rule was introduced at the 2002 general elections by the Supreme Electoral Court.All Chamber of...

, he was elected governor

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 of the state of Rio de Janeiro

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; he was sworn into office on January 1, 2007.

His father is journalist Sérgio Cabral.

Cabral Filho was a state representative for the state of Rio de Janeiro between 1991 and 2002, having presided the State Assembly from 1995 to 2002. In the 2002 general elections

Brazilian general election, 2002

Lula's Worker's Party won the most seats in the Parliamentary elections, though failed to gain an outright majority as they won only 91 of the 513 seats.-Results:...

, he was elected senator for the state of Rio de Janeiro, a position he occupied from January 2003 until December 2006, when he resigned in order to run in the Rio de Janeiro Gubernatorial elections, having been replaced in Senate

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 by Regis Fitchner.

He had also run for Mayor of the city of Rio de Janeiro in 1996 with a PSDB ticket, but his election as governor happened after he had transferred to PMDB, in which occasion he and his running mate

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, Luís Fernando de Sousa, had 5,129,064 votes in the run-off

Two-round system

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 (68% of the total valid votes state-wide) with PPS

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's Denise Frossard

Denise Frossard

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(who had 32% of the valid votes).