Election in Brazil!

The Brazilian Election is ON!

Brazil is a democratic republic where one citizen, one vote is the RULE! We have 141.824.607 votes on dispute! It may sound incredible but the election results in Brazil takes less than 12 hours to be known! This is due to an electronic voting apparatus (see image) and counting system. The apparatus is quite simple with a screen to show the face of the candidate and his election number. A keyboard with number and 3 special button, to vote "White" (no candidate, valid vote to parties in a very complex mathematical calculus!), a red button to cancel and restart the voting and a green button to "Confirm" the vote. All an person has to do to cast a vote is to type in the candidate number and confirm the vote! DONE in lass than 10 seconds! On this year election, the casting vote time shall be 40 seconds due to the fact that there are State and Federal Deputies, Senator, Governor and Presidential votes to cast! 

This electronic voting system has serious defenders and attackers! Accusations of fraud and vote manipulation has pop-up since the system was introduced, but so far no one has come with solid proves that the system is corrupted in any way! On the contrary, the system has proven solid and democratic! 

On the side of Parties, well I can only say that this is done by our politicians! So we have parties for rent and serious ones! Parties for rent are just that! A party has no fundamental moral or guidelines (even that they published it and says they follow it! In true, it is just a JOKE!!) that they follow and defend! They exist to confuse an illiterate voter and get paid to do so! Our elections has a funny, free ads campaign on TV that makes each second very valuable! So parties for rent get to sell his little time! I really mean SELL IT!

Brazilian Parties as found on Wikipedia

(http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:Lista_de_partidos_pol%C3%ADticos_no_Brasil#Partidos_ativos)

Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) 21 Far Left, Socialism, Communism, Marxism-Leninism, Khrushchevismo

(LWA) 19 Centrism National Labour Party, Labour, Nationalism

14 center-left Brazilian Labor Party (PTB), Nationalism, Labour,

Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) 40 Left, Democratic Socialism,

65 Far-Communist left, Market Socialism, Communism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, Reformism, Party of Brazil (PC do B)

Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement (PMDB) 15 Centrism, Democracy, political syncretism, patronage.

Democratic Labor Party (PDT) 12 center-left Social-Democracy, Humanism, Labour, patronage

Workers Party (PT) 13 Left, democratic socialism, reformism, Marxism

National Mobilization Party (PMN) 33 center-left, Mobilization

Democrats (DEM) 25 center-right, liberal conservatism, economic liberalism, neoliberalism, Christian Democracy

Social Christian Party (PSC) 20 center-right Conservative, Christian Democracy

Centre-right Christian Labor Party (PTC), 36 Conservative, Christian Democracy

Social Green Party (PV) 43 center-left, Environmentalism, Liberalism

Party of Brazilian Social Democracy (PSDB) 45 center right, Third Way, parliamentarism, Social-Democracy

Labour Party of Brazil (PTdoB) 70 Centrism, Labour, Nationalism

Republican Progressive Party (PRP) 44 Centrism, Republicanism, Progressivism

Popular Socialist Party (PPS) 23 center-left Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism

Unified Socialist Party of Workers (PSTU) 16 Far Left, Socialism, Communism, Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism (Morenoite)

Social Liberal Party (PSL) 17 Centrism, social liberalism, economic liberalism

Brazilian Labour Renewal Party (PRTB) 28 Centrism, Labour, Participatismo, Conservatism, patronage

Social Christian Democratic Party (CSDP) 27 center-right Christian Democracy

Humanist Party of Solidarity (PHS) 31 Centrism, Monarchism, patronage

Progressive Party (PP) 11 Centrism, Progressivism, liberal democracy, patronage

Workers' Cause Party (PCO) 29 Far Left, Socialism, Communism, Marxism-Leninism, Trotskyism (altamirista)

Brazilian Republican Party (PRB) 10 Centrism, Christian Democracy, patronage

Socialism and Freedom Party (PSoL) 50 Left, Socialism, Marxism, Trotskyism (Morenoite, Mandelite and grantista), Ecosocialism

Party of the Republic (PR) 22 Centrism, Republicanism, social liberalism, protectionism, patronage

Free Fatherland Party (PPL) 54 Left, Marxism, scientific socialism,

Republican Party of Social Order (PROS) 90 center-left Social-Democracy, Republicanism, patronage

Social Democratic Party (PSD) 55 Centrism, political syncretism, patronage

(PEN) National Green Party 51 Centrism, Sustainability, Christian Democracy, patronage

Solidarity (SDD) 77

As you can see, Brazil has a long way to refine its political system! This is no surprise since our education system was systematically destroyed by the military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985!

The election this year has 3 Presidential Candidates, President Dilma for re-electing, Aécio Neves for the PSDB and Eduardo Campos for PSB parties! All three parties are serious parties, even that the approaches to solve Brazilian problems are quite different!

Next publication I will write about these parties approaches to solve Brazilian Problems, as I see it!

All the best,