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Brazil’s Congress Expands: 18 New Seats, Rising Costs, and Political Calculations
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Brazil’s Congress Expands: 18 New Seats, Rising Costs, and Political Calculations
Brazil’s Senate has approved a plan to increase the number of federal deputies, the country’s national lawmakers, from 513 to 531. This decision follows a Supreme Court order that told Congress to update how seats are divided among states, using the latest population numbers from the 2022 census. The Chamber of Deputies, Brazil’s lower house, […]
With the approval of the bill that changes the composition of the National Congress, Paraná should gain one more seat for federal deputy and one more for state deputy starting in the next elections. With this, the state will have 31 representatives in the Chamber and 55 state deputies. In total, the country will have 18 more federal deputies, increasing from the current 513 seats to 531. The increase is due to a rather curious interpretation mad…
The proposal was adopted in the Senate on Thursday morning, by 41 votes to 33 The Senate adopted, on this Thursday, by 41 votes to 33, the draft which increased by 18 the number of federal Members, with a total of 513 to 531. The new rule made it difficult to accommodate all parliamentarians in the plenary, which had only 376 seats.
The Senate should approve without changes to the House which creates more than 18 seats of Members for the House due to the increase in the population.
The Federal Senate has less than one week to vote on the project extending the number of federal Members, raising the total of 513 to 531 seats in the House of Representatives. The vote is marked for this Thursday (25), which preceded the deadline defined by the STF (Supreme Federal Court), which determined a solution until the end of June. The emergency arose after the 2022 census, carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statist…
The plenary of the Senate must vote on the next Thursday, 25th, on the draft supplementary law which raised the number of federal Members from the current 513 to 531. The vote was scheduled for the last three-day, 17, but has been added. Now, the proposal is as the second item of the agenda session marked for the 14th... The post Senate has put forward a project to increase the number of federal Members appeared first on The Antagnonist.
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