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BRASILIA – Chosen to command the Superior Electoral Tribunal (EET) at the end of this month, Minister Luis Roberto Muddy stated today that unify elections Municipal and national governments would bring an “administrative hell” to the TSE. The minister has stated on several occasions that he is against postponing municipal elections until 2022, which would coincide with the election for the selection of representatives at the national level.
According to Barroso, the consensus in the TSE is to avoid extending the mandates, but if it is necessary to postpone the elections due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus, that is for the “inevitable minimum”. During a live broadcast promoted by the Brazilian Academy of Constitutional Law (ABDConst), the minister also assessed that the unification would be “extremely confusing” for the voter, in addition to leading to overlapping national and local debates.
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– Or they are going to nationalize the municipal elections, or vice versa, if they are going to municipalize the national elections. Either hypothesis is bad, not to mention the managerial hell that would be a coincidence for TSE. We have already estimated 750,000 candidates for the elections now in 2020, for the municipal elections alone. If we add to this number the thousands of candidates in the elections for president, governor, senator, federal deputy, state deputy and councilman, we will create great difficulty for the electoral process – the minister said.
If the elections were unified, the voter would have to choose representatives for eight positions (president of the republic, governor, senator, mayor, federal deputy, state deputy and councilors). The minister also reiterated that any decision to postpone the elections must go through Congress, since it would be necessary to amend the Constitution, which provides for elections on the first Sunday of October every four years.
