Sergio Moro won election as governor of Paraná in Brazil on Sunday by taking more than half the votes and thus avoiding a second round. A federal judge in Curitiba since 1996, he approved a 2014 inquiry into a local business suspected of laundering funds that uncovered a nationwide pattern of overpriced public contracts and kickbacks to politicians, including Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Moro’s alliance joined the Liberal Party with Podemos, Christian Democracy and Novo. In the same contests Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, led the presidential field but fell short of 50 percent and will meet incumbent Lula in an October 25 runoff, while the Liberal Party nearly doubled its Senate seats and gained ground in the Chamber of Deputies.

The same inquiry contributed to Dilma Rousseff’s 2016 impeachment and to Lula’s conviction over a luxury coastal property before the Supreme Federal Tribunal later lifted his office ban on procedural grounds.