2018 Ceará gubernatorial election

In general, the rules for the presidential elections also apply to the state. That is, the elections have two rounds, if none of the candidates reaches an absolute majority of the valid votes, a second round between the two most voted happens. All candidates with executive positions should resign by April 7, in order to run.

According to the planned rotation for the Senate elections in 2018, two seats for each state will be held for the 8-year term. The most voted candidate is elected, the second most voted is also elected. In legislative elections there is no second round.

The Chamber of Deputies and the Ceará State Legislative elections are held using open list proportional representation, with seats allocated using the simple quotient.

Aílton Lopes is running for Governor of Ceará for the second time. In 2014 he obtained 2.4% of the valid votes. The candidate has a trajectory of struggle for the rights of minorities, as indigenous and LGBTs, as well as a search for the rights of women and blacks.[2]

Aílton presented a series of proposals, but they are emphasized:

• Health improvements.[2]
• Improvement in education.[2]
• Development of science and technology.[2]
• More investment in culture.[2]
• Guarantee of workers' rights.[2]

"Our nominee is an candidacy that expresses the fight for rights, contrary to what we have seen. In fact what we are seeing is what repeats every election, now in a sharper way that is the partisan gathering at a real business counter. The priority of our program is the rights, because for us there is no peace without right." - Aílton Lopes[2]

Guilherme Cals Theophilo Gaspar de Oliveira is a reserve military officer, outside the Army's four-star General and had according some military a trajectory of "extreme competence".[4]

Guilherme Theophilo, 63, was born in Rio de Janeiro and moved with his family to Fortaleza at the age of three months. He is a General of the Army, a graduate in data processing and a post-graduate in systems engineering.[1]

He served as Commander of the 10th Campaign Artillery Group in Fortaleza and Assistant to the Chief Minister of the Office of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic, in Brasilia. It is the first political candidacy of General Theophilo.[1]

Guilherme presented many proposals, among the proposals he presented during the speech, the PSDB candidate expressed his intention to:

• Make effective investments in strategies to combat crime.[1]
• The police intelligence service should be the main tool for maintaining safety.[1]
• To institute a military standard of education, making schools at the learning level of Police, Fire and Military schools.[1]

"We will shift to results-oriented management and a meritocracy-based government, and the secretariat to be a secretariat of value" - Guilherme Theophilo[1]

Hélio Góis Ferreira Neto, 45, is a lawyer and a teacher. He is a specialist in Public Law from the Federal University of Ceará; Master in Constitutional Law from the Federal University of Ceará and Master in International Law from the Universität Heidelberg (Germany).[3]

Hélio presented many proposals among which it is emphasized:

• Strengthening the family as the base of society;[3]
• Develop the state, through the private initiative itself reducing the size and interference of the state.[4]
• Reduction of taxes.[3]

"I invite each of you who have already - as good men - the first step towards change. I invite you now to a greater sacrifice: to come out of the comfort of your home and call all those who share the same sense of honor, those aligned with Christian values. I call each of you to fight, a fight in which I intend to set an example." - Hélio Góis[3]