The one that ended this Friday (3) caused at least 85 of the 513 deputies to change parties. In this 17% game of musical chairs, the is the biggest loser. The acronym that most attracted parliamentarians, in turn, was , as already pointed out the previous week.
The final numbers may still have small variations, as part of the last-minute changes may not yet have been reported to the Chamber’s system.
União Brasil, which was born from the merger of the former DEM with the PSL, elected the third largest group in the Chamber in the 2022 election, guaranteeing 59 seats. Now, it reaches the end of the party window with 16 fewer deputies in its ranks.
Two points explain the stampede: the one that caused members of the party to lose power in the states, and the electoral survival of the more Bolsonarist wing of the party. In this sense, 9 deputies left the Union for the PL, to have “22” in their ballot box number.
The senator’s PL, which is a pre-candidate for the Presidency of the Republic, gained the most from the party window. The opposition party elected 99 deputies in 2022, but gradually lost members due to disagreements within the right itself or to get closer to the government ().
The party dropped to 87 deputies. Now, according to the partial presented at the end of the window, the PL managed to attract 13 parliamentarians and exceeded its original size.
Another party that grew in the Chamber was The acronym became the third force in the House, losing 7 deputies and attracting 14 so far, having a positive balance of 7 seats. Its bench, according to partial data, has 54 members.
in turn, lost 4 deputies and had its bench shrunk to 13 members. Podemos attracted 5 parliamentarians, reaching 21, above the PSDB, which rose from the ashes and now has 18 representatives in the Chamber.
The case of Podemos and is similar. Both parties lack regional leaders, but have a consolidated party structure. Therefore, they are attractive to parliamentarians who wish to control a party in their state without having to fight internally or share power.
For the president’s base parties, little has changed. There has been no reported change in the PT so far, and the other parties that make up the federation with the acronym, the PV and the PC do B, reported having gained one deputy each. Currently, this alliance, which in practice makes the parties work as one in the election, has 87 seats in the Chamber.
There is a curious case, however, in the PSB. The party has so far reported having lost 2 deputies, but the situation should change with the consolidation of data due to , last Wednesday (1). Federal deputies from his base were expected to migrate to the party at the last minute, aiming to support him in the project to contest for the Government of Minas Gerais.
The party window is the period in which federal and state deputies can change parties without the risk of losing their mandate due to infidelity. This is because the electoral justice system understands that their mandate belongs to the parties. Senators can change at any time. The window opens 30 days before the final date for switching parties for the next election, which will be on October 4th.
Having a large number of deputies strengthens parties in political negotiations for candidacies, in addition to facilitating the election of a larger group in the October election. The changes also do not impact the division of the electoral fund, which is largely distributed in proportion to the votes for the Chamber and the number of deputies elected by each party.
Thus, while having more deputies has a positive side to the political issue, it also presents a challenging factor in distributing the electoral fund to more people. In the case of those who lost, the bet is that the funds guaranteed in the previous election will help in voting for new parliamentarians.
Even before the window opened, 48 federal deputies had already switched parties, such as the former minister (SP), who left the PL and joined Novo to run for , and Luciano Zucco, who switched to the PL to run for the Government of Rio Grande do Sul with the support of the Bolsonaro family.
In these exchanges carried out before the party window, an agreement was necessary between the party that lost its deputy and the new party to avoid losing its mandate.
