Voters set to punish mayor who ‘made Rio de Janeiro miserable’

A landslide in Sunday's election is predicted to sweep away the city's disastrous' conservative leader

Tarcisio Motta is one of Rio's best-known lefties - but when the city elects its new leader on Sunday, he'll be voting for the right.

We've got a mayor who's an enemy of the city, and this can't go on. It's ludicrous," complained the socialist councillor, one of millions of exasperated locals desperate to evict the neo-Pentecostal bishop Marcelo Crivella from city hall after what is widely regarded as a dismal four-year reign.