The Great Brazil Topic

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Temer's criminal procedure was not approved by the House. 263 deputies rejected the accusation, 227 approved, so, Temer will not be trialed by the Supreme Court during the term.

Yesterday, Temer proposed that the Congress should aprove a constitutional amendment to introduce a parliamentary system, in order to replace the presidential system. It looks like a preventive coup. The center-right has no strong candidate for the 2018 presidential election. The favorites are Lula da Silva (center-left), Marina Silva (center) and Jair Bolsonaro (far right). So, the introduction of a parliamentary system would eliminate the presidential election.

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Parliamentary system was briefly tried between 1961 and 1963. When president Jânio Quadros resigned, João Goulart was the vice president. But since he was considered too leftist, there was a semi-coup in 1961. The military made the Congress approve an Amendment introducing the parliamentary system, in order to remove the power from João Goulart. Tancredo Neves, who was more conservative than João Goulart, became prime minister. Then, there was a plebiscite in January 1963. The presidential system had 80% of the vote and João Goulart became a de-facto president. But in April 1964, he was removed by a military coup, which introduced the dictatorship for the following 20 years.

In 1993, 8 years after the redemocratization, there was a plebiscite again. And the presidential system won again. PSDB, who was founded in 1988, supported the parliamentary and lost.

If the supporters of the parliamentary want do discuss this topic again, OK, we can talk about a plebiscite again after the 2018 election. But discuss parliamentary only because Lula is leading the polls looks like a preventive coup.

[buritobr]

This week, the conservative majority in the Congress voted for the "distritão" to replace the proportional election system.

Nowadays, the Brazilian Congress is elected through na open list proportional system. According to the "distritão", each state will elect the representatives who have more votes, no matter the parties.

"Distritão" is much worse than open-list proportional, closed-list proportional, FPTP and mixed German system

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The parade of September 7h (Brazilian Independence) in Brasília. The soundtrack choosen by the presidential guard was a very good fit for Temer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7cHZLydSpc