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In the first useful week after the carnival, on Monday (10), the so-called parliamentary leaders of the Senate summit want to advance with proposals on changes in the electoral process. Governors and opposition are in a hurry to approve and sanction changes by the beginning of October so that new rules can already be valid for the 2026 elections.
Senate should advance in electoral reform projects after Carnival already eyeing the 2026 elections – Photo: Vinicius Loures/Chamber of Deputies/ND
Among the center and right -wing senators, consensus on the need to discuss the end of reelection and the unification of the period of mandates of President of the Republic, governors, mayors, deputies and councilors. One of the enthusiast of the end of reelection is Senator Márcio Bittar (UB-AC), keeping an eye on the future electoral calendar.
To friends, Márcio Bittar reveals that, falling the reelection institute, with the end of the warrant of whom he is elected in 2026 and being unable to apply for reelection, he would risk running governor for the third time.
He disputed the Acre government for the first in 2006 by the PSDB, when he was defeated by Binho Marques of the PT. Eight years later, in 2014, he returned to run and lose the position of governor to another petista, Tião Viana, who disputed the reelection. In that bed, he managed to exceed 30% of the valid votes in the first round and qualified for the second round dispute, but ended up losing a difference of less than 10,000 votes, being defeated with 48.71% of the valid votes.
The projects that deal with these topics and interests of Márcio Bittar and other senators who aim for other positions are concentrated in the Constitution and Justice Commission (CCJ), which is now chaired this year by Senator Otto Alencar (PSD-BA), and under the rapporteur of Senator Marcelo Castro (MDB-PI). Both claim that discussions should be started this month. A critic of the elections every two years, Alencar has already been favorable to the change in the calendar.
This change is in the midst of the proposal of amendment to the constitution of the end of reelection, by Senator Kajuru (PSB-GO), with the rapporteur of Castro. The emedebista has not yet presented the report and studies how to propose a transitional period for the coincidence of the mandates, with an idea of implementing the change only to 2030.
There is also the proposal that changes the Clean Record Law, reported by Senator Weverton (PDT-MA), ready to be voted in the plenary. Already the renovation of the Electoral Code is in the most advanced phase, with the final report of Marcelo Castro known since the beginning of last year, with points such as the creation of reserve for women in the country’s legislatures of at least 20%. Currently there is no such parameter, but parties should register at least 30% of female applications.
“There are more than 700 municipalities without any women in the City Council and another 1,600 with only one. If we can implement this, all cities will have at least two councilors. I’ve introduced an opinion since last year, it is all left to vote soon, ”said Castro, according to the Senate agency.
In this text there is also the inclusion of a resolution of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) that establishes rules for the use of artificial intelligence in the elections and the requirement that research institutes have an index of settlements on electoral results, but without, however, bringing punishments. Another project that renovates the TSE is by Márcio Bittar.
He wants ministers of the Supreme Court (Supreme Court) to cease to have a seat in the TSE and even Ministers of the STJ (Superior Court of Justice) to be replaced by persons appointed by the House of Representatives, the Senate, the OAB (Brazilian Bar Association) and the Executive Power.
Still in the reform of the Electoral Code, emedebista Marcelo Castro decided to include the four -year quarantine so that military, prosecutors and judges are out of office to dispute the elections. The idea even appeared in the original text reported in the House in 2021 by former deputy Margarete Coelho (PP-PI), but was overthrown in the vote in the plenary of the house.
Among other devices, the project also unifies the period of six months before the election as a criterion for posting positions. Today most candidates have to follow the period of six months, but military, for example, may be disqualified in a shorter period of four months instead of six.
The rapporteur also maintained the stretch, which was approved by the deputies, who opens sidelines for political activities in churches and universities during the election period.
The Electoral Code also proposes that ineligibility lasts a maximum of eight years. This theme, however, must be dealt with by the Senate in another project, that of the “Electoral MiniReform”, ready to be voted in The Plenary.
According to the initiative, the period of ineligibility remains eight years, but begins to be counted from the conviction, and no longer after serving the sentence, which would reduce the period away from the polls.
“The term legislation therefore leads to different periods of ineligibility, depending on the moment of loss of mandate. It may occur from a parliamentarian revoked by the respective Legislative House to become ineligible for 8 years or even for 15 years, depending on the case, ”justifies the rapporteur, Weverton Rocha (PDT-MA).
