This should create, later this year, a special committee to discuss a new electoral reform, a frequent theme of discussions of deputies and senators.
The proposal was debated at meetings of party leaders with the president of the house, (-PB), this week.
The creation of commissions of this nature is recurring in Congress, since parliamentarians themselves have varied interests in modifying the rules by which they are elected. This idea has now emerged as one of the first acts of the leaders who form the new summit of the House.
Initially, the proposal is to discuss the change of the electoral system, which determines the voting model to the legislature.
There is still no clarity on other topics that can be debated by the Commission, but politicians from different parties have already expressed interest in discussing in Congress the return of electoral financing by companies and changes in the Clean Record Law – a theme that, depending on the result, could Reduce the period of ineligibility of former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL).
The proposal to create the commission was presented by the PSD leader, Antonio Brito (BA), who defended the vote of a bill that changes the electoral system to the mixed district model, presented by former senator José Serra (PSDB) in 2017.
The mixed district system would apply to the election of federal deputies, state deputies and councilors. In this model, voters would choose half of the chairs through the current system, the proportional. The other half would be chosen in the district model, where the city and the state are divided into districts, and only the most voted candidate for each of these places is elected.
The same political group that today gives the cards in Congress has tried to change the electoral system other times – sorry.
In the creation of the so -called district, in which the proportional election (which takes into account the number of votes obtained by each party to distribute the chairs of the Legislature) would be replaced by a model in which only the most voted names are elected.
This was the third time the house rejected this model of the district (the other two were in 2015 and 2017). At the same time, the deputies approved the resumption of the possibility of coalitions for deputies and councilors.
Given Brito’s request, it was chosen to discuss the issue in a committee. In the evaluation of the PSD leader, this space will guarantee a “broad debate on the proposal”.
According to party leaders, there is still no deadline for this board to be created. They say, however, that it is necessary to take advantage of the 2025 window to advance with this discussion. By the Constitution, changes in the electoral process only apply to the dispute if they have been approved and sanctioned (or promulgated) at least one year in advance.
The project in question, however, faces resistance in the house. In a meeting on Wednesday (5), the proposal was opposed to PT leaders, Lindbergh Farias (RJ), and PSOL, Talíria Petrone (RJ), according to reports of participants.
PP leader, Doctor Luizinho (RJ), one of Motta’s main allies, says that other articles about the electoral system can be discussed under this collegiate. There is no clarity on which themes may be included in the bulge of discussions, although discussions have been ruled out on the implementation of parliamentarism, traditionally defended by the centron.
“The PT, for example, defends proportional vote on the list. Lindbergh has put it. We will discuss the articles. Government regime is not placed there, we are talking. Parliamentarism, presidentialism is a regime of government. The commission is not for that,” stated.
In an interview this week, Motta was asked about proposals that deal with the change of government system in the country. The president of the house defended a debate on the subject and said that he would have no “any difficulty” in this sense, but said this should occur in the long run and “with great responsibility.”
“I think the discussion of parliamentarism must exist, but not that this is applied to 2026, 2030. Discussing electoral reform for the next election is very difficult to approve,” he said.
Themes that deal with the electoral system always gain strength in Congress in the year before the elections, generally in the sense of loosening rules of supervision and transparency.
In 2023, for example, an electoral package discussed in the House in September was not analyzed by the Senate – this way, had no impact on the 2024 claim. These and aimed to loosen the legislation and benefit parties and political.
Two years earlier, the House approved the highest change in the party and electoral legislation of history, the proposal that revokes all current rules, which are spread in some laws, and create a new Electoral Code. This bill, however, has not yet been voted by the Senate.
