The newly informed and boost a movement started a few years ago that resulted in the cut of 30% of the number of existing party forces.
The country reached 35 distinct subtitles in 2015, says that it should lower 24 associations with the realization of the new unions – the wiping will be more pronounced in Congress, which in 2019 had 30 acronyms represented. Now there will be shrinkage at almost half, 16.
The march towards the driving of the Brazilian party letters soup should continue in the coming years and is a reflection of four projects approved by the 2015 to 2021 Congress.
The first in 2015 sought to make it difficult to create parties. That year alone, three new subtitles, new, Network and PMB (Brazilian Women’s Party) were allowed.
The mini -deform approved at the time required that the captions in formation could get the minimum support of voters (today in just over 500,000) within two years (before there was no deadline), none of which could be affiliated with existing party (before, could).
These new rules were crucial to block, for example, the attempt to create the Alliance for Brazil, a party that () and supporters tried to stand from 2019 to 2022 ,. Since 2015, only the Nanico UP (popular unit) was created in 2019.
The main rules against the excessive spraying of the Brazilian party framework came, however, in 2017, when Congress approved and promulgated.
The measure ended the possibility of coalition between the parties for the election of deputies and councilors, which made it difficult to election representatives for small and dwarf parties.
More important than that, it has established a barrier (or performance clause) clause that promotes the strangulation of parties that do not perform minimal to the.
The clause was valid in 2018 and has its hardened rules election, by 2030, when parties will have to obtain at least 3% of national valid federal deputy votes, distributed evenly in at least nine states, or elect at least 15 federal deputies, also distributed in at least one third of the federation units.
Failure to comply with the clause does not require the extinction of the parties. Without reaching it, however, they do not receive the party fund, which will distribute R $ 1.3 billion in this years, nor have access to party and electoral propaganda on TV and radio, among other implications-and councilors elected by these acronyms can migrate to others without risk of loss of mandate.
In 2018, when the floor was 1.5%, 14 parties did not reach the clause. In 2022, when the floor rose to 2%, there were 15. Nine parties disappeared from the Brazilian political map in these years: PPL, PRP, PHS, PSL, DEM, PROS, PSC, Patriot and PTB.
The fourth measure was approved in 2021 in order to improve the chances of small and medium parties of electing parliamentarians, as well as serving as a preview of a merger or incorporation.
These are. By the rule, parties are required to act together for at least four years, as if they were a single association. That is, there is no, for example, how to launch two candidates for mayor of parties other than the same federation, only one.
The following year, three federations were formed: 1) and citizenship, 2) PSOL and Network and 3) PT, PC do B and PV. Now, it is drawn the realization of the fourth, between and, which will represent the main force of Congress and whose symbolic launch occurred in late April.
The new alliance should encourage other major center and right -wing parties to advance in federation negotiations such as MDB, Republicans and PSD.
In the case of the PSDB fusion, there is a expectation that the new subtitle soon fits a federation with solidarity.
Although they have already been settled among the party domes, both the Union-PP Federation and the PSDB-Podmmos merger still need to comply with some formal steps, such as new status approval and a joint meeting program, and obtain the TSE’s approval, responsible for sacramenting the Union.
As the barrier clause in 2026 will be harder and will reach its apex in 2030, the tendency is both to form new federations and the disappearance of smaller and dwarf acronyms.
Unless Congress reviews the rules, a claim that has always been present in wings of the Chamber and and that, from time to time, integrates again the political and electoral mini -reforms that are traditionally made by parliamentarians in non -electoral years.
See approved projects that help wipe out the Brazilian party system
2015
- New parties – Inhibited the creation, putting a two -year expiration date to obtain minimal support (just over 500,000 signatures) from voters not affiliated with other acronyms
2017
- Barrier (or performance) clause – Established that parties that do not achieve minimal performance in the elections for the House of Representatives lose entitlement to advertising on TV and receipt of funds. The rules are hardened by 2030, when it will be necessary to reach 3% of the votes in the country and elect at least 15 federal deputies
- Coalitions – Probation of coalitions for proportional elections, which made it difficult for small and medium parties to elect representatives
2021
- Federations – It made it possible to parties join in federations for at least 4 years. The alliance is a kind of preview of a merger or incorporation
