GENERAL ELECTIONS 2018 IN BRAZIL: IS DEMOCRACY RESTORED?

Dr. Murillo de Oliveira Dias 1 and Andre Teles, LLM 2 . 1. DBA coordinator,Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil. 2. LLM Practitioner, Fundação Getulio Vargas, Brazil. ...................................................................................................................... Manuscript Info Abstract ......................... ........................................................................ Manuscript History Received: 14 August 2018 Final Accepted: 16 September 2018 Published: October 2018


ISSN: 2320-5407
Int. J. Adv. Res. 6(10), 1253-1264 1255 Next, Figure 1:-depicts the evolution of the total of voter in Brazil, as follows: In the sequence, on Figure 2:-, the distribution of Brazilian voters by region is shown, as follows:    (Yin, 1988), along with archival research, especially on the Electoral Superior Court (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral -TSE). The unit of analysis is the Brazilian general elections 2018 (Yin, 1988). The case is also supported by the Agency theory (Eisenhardt, 1989), since there are principals (Brazilian citizens) and their representative agents (president, vice president, senators, members of congress, and state governors).
Secondary data were investigated through archival research based on data available on the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (TSE, Superior Electoral Court, our translation), and text analysis.The aforementioned Court, is the highest instance of the Brazilian Electoral Justice. In turn, TSE regulates state courts -Regional Electoral Courts (Tribunal Regional Eleitoral, TRE), responsible each of the 26 states, plus the Federal District (DF), according to Federal Constitution 1998, Article 118 (Brasil, 1988).
This article is limited to Law no. 9.504, from September 30, 1997, issuing on Article 1, " that the general elections should take place on the first October's Sunday of the electoral year" (Brasil, 1997). Also rules: (a) parties' colligations (Art The electronic vote is not an entirely safe system, because it is exclusively dependent on software and operating system which can be in turn manipulated or hacked, or present malfunction. If a ballot machine malfunctions, Law 9.504/ 1997, establishes on Art. 83-89 that paper ballots shall substitute the electronic vote "in sections were the electronic vote unavailable or present malfunction at the moment of voting, for instance, among others" (Brasil, 1997, art 83-89). In general elections 2018, second round, exactly 4,658 electronic devices were substituted for paper ballots due to malfunction, 860 only in São Paulo statethe more significant number of substitutions (TSE, 2018).
The security levels were improved through the adoption ofbiometrics-based voting machine. It was formally adopted on September 16, 2008. To the general election 2018, 73,688,211 voters were biometrically identified, representing 50.03 percent of voters (TSE, 2018).
Electoral e-voting fraud on the machines is a crime, punishable by imprisonment are from five to ten years, according to Law 9.504/ 1997, Art. 72 (Brasil, 1997, items I, II and III).  Table 3, as follows:  (2018), The aggressor, Adélio Bispo de Oliveira, was arrested and declared, that he stabbed Bolsonaro obeying a divine order, an "act of God". The aggressor was framed in the National Security Law, nº 7.170, from December 14th, 1983. He justified the action against the far-right politician due to his controversial commentaries, who has outraged Adelio about some racist and homophobic Bolsonaro's comments (p.12). Bolsonaro had a 12 cm intestinal perforation, pierced by a 30 cm kitchen knife blade, and suffered many surgical interventions. He was prohibited by doctors of taking part in campaign rallies, until his full health recovery.
General Elections 2018: Results:-Jair Messias Bolsonaro, from PSL Party -Liberal Social Party (Partido Social Liberal) won by a difference of ten million votes (TSE, 2018). The result of the second round of the president election is depicted in Figure 3, as follows:  Table 4, the overall votes results in the two rounds system, is depicted, as follows:  In Figure 4:-the official logo for general elections 2018 is depicted, as follows:   Bolsonaro adopted the less expensive campaign, conquering millions of followers in the social networks, who in turn helped to spread word to mouth. He led the polls about voting intentions since the beginning of the president race.
Bolsonaro's campaign has been marked by controversial declarations against minorities, such as gays, and lesbians. He upholds the following government agenda items, not restricted to: (a) family values, (b) population rearmament, against gender educational policy for children, (d) social security reform, (e) privatization, (f) support to entrepreneurs and simplification of the Brazilian business managerial system, (g) eradication of corruption in Brazil, eradication of violence in Brazil, among others. As a member of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), he was federal deputy for seven terms between 1991 and 2018, being elected through different parties throughout his career. He has three sons, all elected politicians in 2018: Carlos Bolsonaro (Rio de Janeiro, for PSC), Flávio Bolsonaro (state congressman of Rio de Janeiro for PSL and commander of the legend in the state), and Eduardo Bolsonaro (Federal congressman in São Paulo also by the PSL).
Bolsonaro entered the reserve in 1988, with the rank of captain, in 1988 started his political career, as Rio de Janeiro Vereador (local councilman). After that, he won seven consecutive federal congress mandates.