Can You Count? In Order Not to Change 14 Seats in the Chamber, Deputies Create 18 New Ones, without Complying with the STF

Instead of correcting the disproportionate number of seats per state, as required by the 2023 Supreme Federal Court (STF) decision, the Chamber of Deputies approved a proposal that maintained all current seats and created 18 more. According to the Court's decision, by June 20, the 531 parliamentary seats should be redistributed based on the 2022 Census – which, according to the Inter-Union Department of Parliamentary Advisory Services (Diap), wo…