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Brazil & Southern Cone - October 2017 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Electoral reform falls short of the mark
Brazil’s general election may be a year away, but frantic preparations for the event are already underway. Just before the October 7 deadline, President Michel Temer sanctioned a series of electoral reforms that had been approved by the federal congress designed to reduce the number of political parties operating in Brazil, cap campaign financing, and limit the power of coalitions. These may improve some aspects of Brazil’s electoral model but are a far cry from the “totally different” political system which the president of the chamber of deputies, Rodrigo Maia, had envisaged. The reforms now pass to the supreme electoral tribunal (TSE), which will then publish a full list of the new rules by March 2018.
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