BRASILIA， Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Workers' Party (PT) did poorly in Brazil's municipal elections on Sunday， losing over half of the municipalities it governed， according to the final results published Monday.

In the 2012 elections， PT candidates won 630 municipalities but this number was just 256 yesterday.

The election was a better success for President Michel Temer， whose Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) won most municipalities with 1，208， followed by the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) with 1，028 and the Social Democratic Party (PSD)， with 538.

However， the PMDB suffered in Rio de Janeiro， long a bastion for the party. The outgoing mayor， Eduardo Paes， once a popular flagbearer， saw his popularity fall in the run-up to the Olympic Games and his chosen successor， Pedro Paulo， only finished third.

The PT suffered its worst result in Brazil's largest cities in the last two decades. It seized only one provincial capital in the first round， Rio Branco， the capital of the northwestern state of Acre， and will contest just one other in the second round， Recife， capital of the northeastern state of Pernambuco.

In 2012， the PT had won four provincial capitals， down from five in 2008.

After governing Brazil for over 12 years through the presidencies of Luis Inacio Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff， South America's largest left-wing party is in crisis.

Rousseff was impeached in August from the presidency for financial manipulations and Lula is facing corruption charges stemming from the Petrobras corruption ring， which has already brought down a number of prominent PT figures. Enditem

CAIRO， Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Egypt has aligned itself with the international standard to allow 0.05 percent of ergot fungus in imported wheat， the state-run Ahram Arabic news website reported on Wednesday.

The decision reversed a previous zero-tolerance policy which caused confusion in markets.

In August， the minister of agriculture Essam Fayed issued a decision to forbid any imported wheat shipment that contains any traces of the fungus.

However， the Egyptian government said on Wednesday that the zero-ergot policy has led to the delay in arrival of 540，000 tonnes of imported grain to Egypt， the world's biggest wheat importer， Ahram reported.

Since February， conflicting decisions made by the General Authority for Supply Commodities， the state's grain buyer， and the agricultural authorities over standard of the fungus caused confusions among suppliers， driving some of them to boycott tenders.

Ergot can cause hallucinations when consumed in large amounts. The most widely applied international standard sets a 0.05 percent tolerance level of the fungus.

The Egyptian minister of health Ahmed Emad also said on Wednesday the imported wheat will be purified and washed to cut the ratio to zero.

The most populous Arab country relies heavily on imported wheat to meet domestic demands.

Egypt's wheat imports for the 2015-16 marketing year were estimated at 11 million tonnes， the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization showed in October 2015. Enditem

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However Graham Glasgow Womens Jersey , Istat also added that it will be "difficult" to include these elements of the underground economy "for the obvious reason that they are dodging any form of recognition."

According to estimates mentioned by ANSA news agency, expanding the measure of GDP to include the illegal activities could add as much as 1 percent to 2 percent to Italian GDP.

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