however he won with the lowest majority ever tallied by the conservative party , 48 . 7 % of the votes , his lists almost doubled those of unfamiliar diego manuel de cevallos , the leftists second - up . and insiders are now favored to win other middle union candidates in the recent hours : in colombia , fernando joao cardoso , a democratic senate leader and cabinet officer , is expected to finish short of outsider luis evo ( rousseff ) e silva , a modernist former labor man , in the first round of president .
Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.