Data from the (Superior Electoral Court) released on Tuesday (25) in a report prepared by the Ministry of Women show that white were majority among the elected in the 2024 election.
According to the survey, black candidates, considering black and brown, were 40% among the total of women who managed to elect to the positions of councilwoman or mayor, against 59% white.
This disparity highlights a triple inequality: women occupy in city councils in the country. Black people are, therefore, the minority fraction of a group already very under-tested-women are 51.5% of the Brazilian population, according to the 2022 census.
In addition, black women, representing 28% of the population (against 22.9% of white), were only 8% of the total black and brown people for verification positions last year, as shown the Sheet.
The number of women elected is considered disappointing for experts, who see those in applications as insufficient to ensure real possibilities for victory for these groups.
In last year’s election, women were 35% of the applications, which did not translate into a large increase in the amount of elected, which in 2020 had been 16%. In absolute numbers, there are 10,644 councilors and 47,750 councilors to occupy a chair.
In 2020, he forced the parties to divide his billionaire Electoral Fund and their propaganda time proportionate to the number of black and white candidates. In the 2022 dispute, for example, blacks and browns should have received 50% of $ 5 billion.
But the determination, which articulated to approve the call in August this year, in a emptied plenary. The text that was eventually voted for blacks to 30%, a percentage already valid in this year’s elections.
He also forgiven the debts of parties that did not comply with the minimum value in the past elections and determined that these resources be invested in black candidates in the four elections to be held from 2026.
The Ministry of Women’s report also brings other data on female participation in politics. The document shows, for example, that there was a 9.7% increase in the number of Municipal Policies Secretariats from 2023 to 2024.
They are present in 18.3% of municipalities, being concentrated mainly in the Northeast, where 33.4% of the secretariats are, a total of 63.3% municipalities in the region, and North, where 27.1% of the organs are housed, corresponding to 11% of the municipalities of the region.
