The Great Brazil Topic

[Lord Halifax]

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

So if the state has 15 seats the 15 candidates with the most personal votes are elected? No list votes?

[Lord Halifax]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/oct/23/amazon-rainforest-close-to-irreversible-tipping-point

"Soaring deforestation coupled with the destructive policies of Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, could push the Amazon rainforest dangerously to an irreversible “tipping point” within two years, a prominent economist has said.

After this point the rainforest would stop producing enough rain to sustain itself and start slowly degrading into a drier savannah, releasing billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, which would exacerbate global heating and disrupt weather across South America."