Few Brazilians will notice when campaigning for the country's multiple elections starts on July 5th. Apart from the likelihood that Brazil's footballers will still be contesting the World Cup in Germany, new rules ban candidates from distributing T-shirts and baseball caps and sponsoring the street concerts that normally liven up campaigns. Then there is the seeming lack of suspense: President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is expected to confirm by June 24th his candidacy for reelection, looks set to trounce his only serious challenger, Geraldo Alckmin, until recently governor of the state of Sao Paulo, in the first round of voting on October 1st.
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机译：很少有巴西人会在7月5日开始竞选该国的多次选举。除了巴西足球运动员仍将参加德国世界杯的可能性外，新规定还禁止候选人分发T恤和棒球帽，以及赞助通常可以提高运动水平的街头音乐会。然后似乎缺乏悬念：总统路易斯·伊纳西奥·卢拉·达席尔瓦（Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva）有望在6月24日前确认当选连任，他看来将击败他唯一的严肃挑战者杰拉尔多·阿尔克敏（Geraldo Alckmin），直到最近圣保罗州长，即10月1日的第一轮投票。
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