2023-09-26 20:00:41
The project sets aside a 20% floor for racial candidates, but still gives political parties the freedom to manage the transfer.
The text of Amnesty’s proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC) opens a loophole so that parties can concentrate the resources of the Party Fund and the Electoral Fund for a few black candidates, even choosing the cities that will have their candidacies supported according to the party’s own decision. The PEC, the target of contestation by civil society organizations, and social and electoral transparency movements, will also amnesty fines worth R$23 billion from all parties. The text would be voted on this Tuesday, 26th, but the vote was postponed until Wednesday, 27th.
The project sets aside a minimum of 20% for racial candidates, but still gives freedom to political parties to manage the transfer without complying with proportionality. Electoral transparency movements also say that the minimum value tends to become a ceiling, which should reduce current transfers.
Currently, the jurisprudence of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) states that the transfer must be proportional. That is, if there are 40% black candidates, 40% of the resources must be allocated to the group. The transfer, according to the text, says that national party directories can send the 20% quota to black people to regions “that best meet party guidelines and strategies”.
The proposal, which would be voted on this Tuesday, the 26th, was postponed for another day, in a session that saw protests from social movements. “Who is afraid of black people in politics?”, “who is afraid of women in politics” said some of the banners shown to politicians at the meeting. A vote is expected on Wednesday in the Committee and in the Chamber plenary to be forwarded to the Senate.
Deputies claim that they need to make adjustments to the text. The PT, in favor of the PEC, asks that the text increase the transfer to black candidates from 20% to 30%.
The PEC also opens a loophole that exempts acronyms from allocating 30% of vacancies to women, if there are not enough candidates to register the tickets.
Only PSOL and Novo were against it. In this Tuesday’s session, deputy Guilherme Boulos (PSOL-SP) called the text “PEC do Fiado”. “If you go to a bar and ask for credit, no one will give you more. If you go there and fail to comply (with the decisions of the Electoral Court), what is created is a safe conduct when you can. It is a Fiado PEC”, he stated.
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