The Court has not yet defined the amount authorized in 2026, but the tendency is to maintain the ceiling of R$133.4 million for 2022 for presidential candidacies
The Workers’ Party intends to use the maximum amount authorized by the Superior Electoral Court for the president. The values are not defined, but the expectation is that the allowed resources from 2022 will be maintained in 2026.
The tendency is for a definition of the amount authorized for applications to be reserved in the coming days. For each name in the race for President, the total in 2022 was R$133.4 million – the amount takes into account the 2 rounds.
Therefore, the PT must allocate these amounts to Lula’s campaign this year:
- 1st round – R$88.94 million;
- 2nd round – R$44.44 million, if there is a dispute.
In 2022, Lula will have R$130 million available in the elections. The value was a little lower than the R$132 million it could spend.
The 30 parties, together, received R$4.9 billion from the Electoral Fund in 2026. It is the same amount reserved in 2022.
Of this amount, the PT received R$615 million – more than the R$499.6 million in 2022. It is the 2nd highest value: only from the PL, with R$881.7 million.
PARTY CLAIM
The president of the TSE, minister Kassio Nunes Marques, on Wednesday (June 17, 2026), presidents of political parties. At the meeting, representatives of the acronyms reinforced the request that the ceiling allowed by the Court be the same as in 2022.
They argued that the spending limit for candidacies should not be adjusted for inflation because the Special Campaign Financing Fund was also not adjusted during the period. The measure was already under study by the court.
