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Brazilian Municipal Elections, 2016

Brazilian Municipal Elections of 2016 were held in Octuber 2, with 2nd round held in Octuber 30. The voters chosen Mayors, Vice Mayors and Aldeperson of the 5.568 municipalities of the country. The Municipal Party Conventions to the choosen of the candidates took place on July 20th and August 5th. Free electoral propaganda started in August 26th and finished in September 29th. Until the 2012 Municipal Elections, the mondays, wednesdays and fridays there was the time for candidates for Prefectures, lasting 30 minutes. The Free Propaganda for Alderperson happened in tuesdays, thusdays and saturdays, with lasting 30 minutes too. At least 97 municipalities had only one candidate. for mayor in these elections. In addition, 48.8% of the municipalities of the country will have no more than two candidates.

The results of the election showed a clear and undeniable advance of the right, both in the economic and social fields, and a retreat from the left, especially the Workers' Party (PT). More expressive examples of this phenomenon are the first-round victory of the liberal businessman João Doria (PSDB) in São Paulo and the bishop Marcelo Crivella (PRB) in Rio de Janeiro. On the other hand, the PT lost more than 60% of city halls and won in only one capital (Rio Branco, Acre). The reasons for the overthrow of the party are considered to be the effects of the investigations of the Lava Jato operation, of the economic crisis initiated in the Dilma Rousseff administration, and of the impeachment against Dilma Rousseff.

The elections held in the context of the Car Wash Operation to fight against corruption in the country, the effect was recorded only on the decrease of mayors elected by the Workers Party, failing to reach the Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement or the Progressive Party, which also have members investigated, but recorded growth in comparison to 2012.

In these elections the denunciations application debuted of the Electoral Superior Court (TSE) to all the country. Called Pardal, the program received mainly denunciations of the irregular propaganda (47,5%) and from São Paulo (21%), Paraiba and Pernambuco, of a total of almost 62 thousand registered until October 20.