The chamber’s president, Vice-President Hugo Motta, has decided to clarify, with support from the Centre, that a mixed constituency voting model will be adopted from the 2030 elections. It has the advantage of blocking candidates with ties to criminal organizations.
This is a scam. Precinct voting, whether simple or mixed, will have the same influence as Saturn’s rings in thwarting the advance of organized crime in politics. His intention with the current proposal is to elect candidates without a vote, with support from party leaders and others.
Professor Delfim Netto taught that what has not been achieved under Institutional Law No. 5 (1968-1978) will never happen. Examples include charging annual fees at public universities and district voting. He has been involved in politics for more than half a century.
At first glance, this type of voting brings elected officials closer to voters. Divide the state into districts and elect a deputy in each district. This system also works in the UK and US, but one question remains. It’s about who draws the electoral districts. Looking at Rio’s electoral map, there is a possibility that Rocinha will be swallowed up by Barra da Tijuca. In another design, Barra would be swallowed up by Cidade de Deus voters.
This is the difficulty with simple district voting like in the US, but centrists want a mixed system in which there would be a closed list of figures who select some of the benches based on the choice of the leader.
If organized crime is successful in infiltrating your current system, it is clear that new developments will make your life easier. The issue of public safety has become a wasteland filled with crazy ideas. After all, when you call murder a “massive operation,” anything can happen.
Simple district voting is a serious issue and deserves discussion. Mixed models, on the other hand, come with dangerous vulnerabilities because in the case of lists, candidates are elected without votes. In theory, they would elect someone who has the most values but receives fewer votes. In effect, it will be possible to elect a consiglieri from a criminal faction without values or votes.
Currently, senators have alternates selected from among campaign donors. Last July, businessman Breno Barbosa Chávez Pinto, deputy assistant to Sen. Davi Alcolumbre (Federal Republic of Brazil, Associated Press), was embarrassed to learn that he was embroiled in a federal police investigation. In 2018, businessman Joel Marcelli, a former deputy of Sen. Alvaro Díaz, was arrested. If the alternates taught us anything, it exposed the dangers of electing the people who sign the checks.
The project to create a mixed district system was approved by the Senate in 2017 and has been in a House committee ever since. It is to awaken him and lead him to his final approval. All in the darkness of Brasilia, with central firepower.
The project, approved in 2017, was authored by then-Senator Jose Serra. He was a secondary candidate for the 2022 election, receiving 89,000 votes but was defeated.
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