Political parties and party federations have until this Friday (5th) to hold their conventions and choose candidates who will run for elective office in this year’s elections, as well as to decide on the formation of coalitions.
This year, the 34 political parties registered with the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) were released to hold their national meetings from 20 July. As established by the 2022 Election Calendar, after defining the names that will compete for a position, parties, federations and coalitions will have until August 15th to request the registration of candidacies. In the case of party federations, the convention must take place in a unified manner, with the participation of all member parties.
Until the morning of this Thursday (4), only four candidates for the Presidency of the Republic had registered their candidacies in the TSE: Felipe D’Avila (Novo); Léo Péricles (Popular Unit-UP); Pablo Marçal (Republican Party of the Social Order-Pros) and Sofia Manzano (Brazilian Communist Party-PCB). Their vice-presidents are, respectively: Tiago Mitraud; Samara Martins; Fatima Pérola Neggra and Antonio Alves.
More than 156.45 million male and female voters are eligible to vote on October 2, when Brazilians will begin to choose the next president of the Republic, in addition to future governors, senators and federal, state and district deputies. The possibility of coalitions between parties only applies to the dispute for the so-called majority positions (that is, those in which the candidate with the most votes gets the vacancy, in the case of the choice for president, governor, mayor and senator), not valid for the proportional elections (deputies).
electoral propaganda
Electoral advertising will only be allowed from the 16th of August. Consequently, as of next Saturday (6th), radio and television stations will be prohibited from proselytizing politically, and will not be able to dispense privileged treatment to any candidate or party.
Radio and TV stations will also not be able to broadcast, even in the form of journalistic material, interviews about voting intentions that allow the identification of voters. Nor will they be able to disclose names of programs associated with candidacies or even attractions with “allusion or criticism of a candidate, candidate, political party, federation or coalition, even if covertly, except for journalistic programs or political debates”.
In a note released yesterday (3), the TSE highlighted that the Electoral Code prohibits advertisements alluding to “violent processes to subvert the regime, the political and social order or racial or class prejudices; as well as provoking animosity between or against the Armed Forces, or against civil classes and institutions; incitement to attack a person or property; instigation of collective disobedience to the fulfillment of the law of public order and which implies the offer, promise or request of money, donation, raffle, drawing or advantage of any nature”.
