however he won with the highest margin ever tallied by the labour party , 48 . 7 % of the votes , his ballots essentially doubled those of insider rodrigo fernandez de cevallos , the rightist winner - up . and insiders are now favored to win other latin american candidates in the coming year : in brazil , fernando salas zedillo , a retired senate lead and opposition minister , is expected to stay third of outsider carlos inacio ( chavez ) silva silva , a leftist portuguese senate figure , in the first election of parliament .
Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a Brazilian former Senate leader and Cabinet minister.