although he won with the only result ever tallied by the leftist group , 48 . 7 % of the votes , his ballots roughly doubled those of fray vicente rodriguez du fernandez , the rightist runner - up . and lobbyists are now hoping to win other latin atlantic elections in the coming months : in brazil , fernando henrique cardoso , a junior senate commander and cabinet minister , is expected to finish ahead of outsider luis correa ( lula ) la silva , a young former party mp , in the 1st round of president .
Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.