The federation, oeo will concentrate 49.58% of the FEFC (Special Campaign Financing Fund), known as the electoral fund, in this year’s election. The calculation was made by the 1º de Maio Foundation, linked to the Solidariedade party, following President Lula’s 2026 Budget, this Wednesday (14).
For this year, for the electoral fund, which aims to finance part of the campaigns with public funds. This way, calculate the foundation, the division will be done like this:
This year, lawyer Antônio Rueda and senator Ciro Nogueira will be together in a federation. This means that the parties will function as one big party. Together, they concentrate R$953.6 million in party funds, which represents 19.2% of the funds available for all parties, according to the survey. They have 12 senators and 109 deputies.
According to the estimate, former president Jair Bolsonaro’s PL, currently with 88 deputies and 15 senators, accumulates a party fund of R$886.7 million, 31% more than the PT’s R$619.7 million. President Lula’s party has 67 representatives in the Chamber and nine in the Senate.
The list of the five largest is closed by Gilberto Kassab, who has 47 deputies and 14 senators. The acronym, which emerged as the biggest winner of the 2024 municipal elections with command of 887 cities, will have R$420.8 million in funds from the electoral fund to spend in 2026, according to the foundation.
It is up to the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) to make the official calculation, generally published in June, of the division of the electoral fund based on the criteria established by law. In this way, the division can be changed by changes of parliamentarians in the party window.
How the calculation is done
The Electoral Law determines a division into four stages for the first round of elections. It gives priority to the electoral performance of the parties in the election for the Chamber of Deputies and the number of representatives each has in the House.
The law says that 2% of the electoral fund will be divided “equally among all parties with statutes registered with the Superior Electoral Court.” Another 35% will be divided between the acronyms “in proportion to the percentage of votes obtained by them in the last general election for the Chamber”.
Then, 48% is divided “between the parties, in proportion to the number of representatives in the Chamber of Deputies”. Finally, 15% is distributed among the parties in proportion to their number of representatives in the Senate.
