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Elections in Brazil gives information on election and election results in Brazil. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and in which electorates choose local government officials.
- See election for a more comprehensive discussion and the List of democracy and elections-related topics for an overview on related topics.
Brazil elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a four year term by the people. The National Congress (Congresso Nacional) has two chambers. The Chamber of Deputies (Câmara dos Deputados) has 513 members, elected for a four year term by proportional representation. The Federal Senate (Senado Federal) has 81 members, elected for a eight year term, with elections every four years for alternately one-third and two-third of the seats.
Brazil has a multi-party system, with numerous parties in which no one party often has a chance of gaining power alone, and parties must work with each other to form coalition governments.
Brazilian vote machine
Brazil was the first country in the world to have a totally eletronic election.
The brazilian vote machine was developed by OMNITECH, a brazilian company, but produced by many others companies.
It has been used since 1996 and in 2000 the election was totally eletronic.
There some questions about the security of the machine but the machine is accepted by the great majority of the people. In order to be able to recount the votes, a printing system is been developed.
Brazil usually lend the machines to the neighbour countries, as Paraguay and Ecuador.
History
Last elections
Brazil had presidential direct elections continuosly since 1989, when Fernando Collor de Mello was elected to Republic Presidency (Presidência da República in Portuguese). Although he suffered an impeachment in 1992, there weren't problems - his successor, vice-president Itamar Franco became president.
Eversince, there were elections in 1994, for the 1995-1998 term; 1998 for the 1999-2002 term and in 2002 for the 2003-2007 term.
Fernando Henrique Cardoso (elected for the 1995-1998 term) passed a controversial Constitutional Amendment which creates the reelection for executive post. He was reelected for the 1999-2002 term.
In 2002, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was the most voted president in the history of the world until then.
Past elections
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