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Bacchus4.0

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Tue Oct 4, 2016, 01:58 PM Oct 2016

Voters punish Brazil’s Workers’ Party in local elections

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/voters-punish-brazil-s-workers-party-in-local-elections-1.2815197


Brazil’s Workers Party suffered its worst-ever result at the polls as voters used Sunday’s local elections to punish it for a deep recession and a series of corruption scandals.

After 13 years in power the party saw its vote collapse across Brazil in a dramatic confirmation that it is now fighting to retain a seat at the top table of Brazilian politics following the impeachment of president Dilma Rousseff in August and the decision last month to try party founder and former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva for corruption.

With most results declared, the Workers Party has seen the number of municipalities it controls plunge from the 644 peak it achieved in 2012 to just 256 now, though it may pick up another handful once remote regions declare and run-off rounds are held in big cities in three weeks’ time. It means the party is now the 10th-largest in terms of town halls under its control.

Nationally its vote shrank from 17.3 million votes in 2012’s local elections to just 6.8 million on Sunday, a drop of 60 per cent. It is the first time since its foundation in 1980 that the party comes out of local elections with fewer elected officials than it had achieved four years previously.
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Voters punish Brazil’s Workers’ Party in local elections (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Oct 2016 OP
The fact that Brazil uses electronic voting nationwide may have run up the score for the PSDB. forest444 Oct 2016 #1
Hmm, Venezuela uses electronic voting too. Marksman_91 Oct 2016 #2
It doesn't look to good for Dilma's party these days nt Bacchus4.0 Oct 2016 #3

forest444

(5,902 posts)
1. The fact that Brazil uses electronic voting nationwide may have run up the score for the PSDB.
Tue Oct 4, 2016, 07:44 PM
Oct 2016

It's certainly plausible (http://www.democraticunderground.com/110848771) and goodness knows the Temer regime, given its illegal nature and 14% approval, isn't above committing electoral fraud - or any other kind really.

 

Marksman_91

(2,035 posts)
2. Hmm, Venezuela uses electronic voting too.
Tue Oct 4, 2016, 11:55 PM
Oct 2016

I think the Chavista regime may have run up the score for the PSUV in 2013. It's certainly plausible. And goodness knows the Maduro regime, given its anti-democratic nature and 20%-ish approval, isn't above committing electoral fraud - or any other kind really.

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