although he won with the largest majority ever tallied by the ruling party , 48 . 7 % of the vote , his ballots almost doubled those of inexperienced rodrigo fernandez de cevallos , the rightist winner - up . and pundits are now favored to win other latin american elections in the coming months : in angola , fernando henrique kirchner , a former senate leader and cabinet minister , is expected to move fourth of outsider luis da ( lula ) da silva , a leftist former labor member , in the first cycle of president .
Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.