KINGMAKER KASSAB

Brazil's municipal elections were a triumph for a wily powerbroker who could choose the country's next president.

Last Sunday, Brazilians went to the polls to elect mayors and city councils in just over 5500 municipalities nationwide. The results were as expected, with the array of political parties on the right gaining ground and those on the left losing ground overall. However, the non-ideological “big center” (Centrão) parties — the Social Democratic Party (PSD)…