Wanderlei Silva has once again failed to secure a seat in Brazil’s Congress after coming up short in Sunday’s general election.
The PRIDE and UFC veteran, who represented the Progressive Party (PP) affiliated with Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, earned 13,907 votes during the election. He needed more than 61, 500 votes to represent his home state in Congress.
This marks the second time that Silva will attempt to run for congress in Brazil after failing to win a seat in the 2018 elections. The UFC veteran was then affiliated with the Social Democratic Party.
Silva is the latest fighter to enter the political fray, following the likes of former UFC champion Tito Ortiz, who served as Mayor Pro-Tem of Huntington Beach, California, until he resigned from city council less than six months later.