The proposal of amendment to the Constitution that was approved on Wednesday (21) in the Constitution and Justice Commission, but is resistance in both houses, which makes its final approval uncertain.
Although the end of reelection to president, governors and mayors have support between congressmen, a part of them criticizes the confusing transition rules and the unification of all in one year, which will force the citizen to choose nine candidates at once, in a campaign that will mix municipal, state and federal issues.
The measure proposes a gradual and complex transition until 2039, when all mandates would last five years. The way to this standardization, however, includes a series of terms with variable durations (four, five, six, eight and nine years old), according to positions and election years.
The text approved in the committee needs to be voted in the plenary in two shifts and then analyzed in the House.
To be approved in the Senate Plenary, it takes the support of at least 49 of the 81 senators in two voting shifts. If it passes, the PEC must be processed in the House by the CCJ, special commission and then plenary. It takes the vote of at least 308 of the 513 deputies.
The proposal came out of the senators’ drawer after the House approved, rejecting an equation that only remodels the current vacancies according to the new data of Census 2022. The text is under analysis in the Senate.
Understand the end of reelection and unification of elections
Mayors and councilors:
- As it is today: four -year term, with the possibility of reelection for mayors and successive reelections for councilors
- How would: From 2028 the elected mayors will not be able to apply for reelection. Councilors continue to be able to reelect themselves successively. Mayors and councilors elected in 2028 will have a six -year term. In 2034, the elected have a five -year term
State and federal deputies:
- As it is today: four -year term, with the possibility of successive reelection
- How would: The elected in 2034 have a five -year term. Continue to reelect indefinitely
Senators:
- As it is today: Eight -year -old mandates, with the possibility of successive reelection. Senate renewal occurs every four years, now one third, sometimes two thirds of the house entering each election
- How would: Elected in 2026 would continue with eight -year term. Elected in 2030 would have a term of nine years. Elected in 2034 and 2039 of five. The possibility of reelection continues
Governors and President of the Republic:
- As it is today: four -year term, with the possibility of a reelection
- How would it be: From 2030, the elected can no longer apply for reelection. In 2034, they would have a five -year term
ELECTION DATE
- As it is today: Elections occur every two years, divided between municipal (mayors and councilors) and general (deputies, senators, governors and president of the Republic)
- How would it be: from 2034, they would be unified in a single year, occurring every five
