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Weekly Report - 01 October 2020 (WR-20-39)
BRAZIL: Elections with new rules, old problems
Brazilians will elect their mayor and municipal councillors for the next four years in the country’s 5,568 municipalities on 15 November, with a second round planned for 29 November. This is the first electoral test for President Jair Bolsonaro, although he has kept his distance from electoral talk. Held in the context of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and with a number of new electoral rules in place, these elections – for which campaigning began on 27 September – will be unlike previous municipal votes. But familiar problems, most notably the issue of corruption, have already cropped up.
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