President of the Supreme Court states that change would allow the voter to “know who represents him”; Chamber discusses change
The President of the (Supreme Federal Court), Roberto Barroso, defended on Monday (17.FEV.2025) mixed district vote in proportional elections. According to the minister, the model is ideal because “It allows the voter to effectively know who represents him”.
Barroso justified support for the proposal by saying it would be a solution to decrease the distance between politics and society. Still praised the president of the House of Representatives, Hugo Motta (Republicans-PB) for the initiative. Casa Lower a special committee to discuss the 2017 PL (Bill) 9,212 on the subject.
“It’s a model that I consider ideal because it allows the voter to effectively know who represents it. So the mixed district vote has a dimension of proportionality in political representation, but ensures that the voter knows who represents him. And I think this will reduce this distance that occurred between politics and civil society ”told journalists visiting schools in Campinas (SP).
The magistrate also said that this was once an official view of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court), when Minister Rosa Weber was president of the Electoral Court and had her support.
The proposal that changes the electoral legislation is authored by the former senator (PSDB-SP). The text has already been approved in the Senate and is waiting for the House.
In the mixed district vote, each member of the National Congress is elected individually, according to the geographical limits of 1 district by most votes (simple or absolute).
Today, federal deputies are elected through a proportional voting system, in which the election of candidates is distributed among the party.
Semipresidencialism
Asked about the PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) of semi -presentialism in the House of Representatives, Barroso said he already defended the point of view in 2006, but said he considered the reform in the most important electoral legislation.
“This is a political issue that will depend on the debate in the National Congress. Doctrinally, I have already defended this point of view in a long article in 2006. What I consider most important, and I think the mayor has taken the initiative to trigger this debate, is the shift of the electoral system to a district voting system mixed”he declared.
The Supreme Dean, Gilmar Mendes, already the debate on the subject. The minister has connected the idea to the size of budget control that the National Congress has achieved in recent years. According to him, there are distortions that need to be discussed.
“From 2015, during the government[PT] and with [Republicanos] na [presidência da] Chamber, previously proposed amendments become imposing. This was changed to the pix amendments. And it’s a weird, strange model. The parliamentarian participates in the execution of the policy, but has no responsibility. Isn’t it time for us to think of a semi -presentialism? ”these.
