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The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) ruled on Tuesday night (December 3, 2019) that electronic signatures may be used as voter support for the creation of political parties. The answer was what President Jair Bolsonaro and his political group, who are creating a new party, were hoping for, but at the same time, it is a defeat for the plans of the Alliance for Brazil, as the Court's ministers also decided that regulations will be needed to make this new measure official – and there is no deadline for this.
Bolsonaro himself said in November that he was waiting for the Electoral Court to authorize the collection of signatures electronically. For him, only in this way would his new party be launched by March of next year, ready to contest the 2020 municipal elections in October.
The most difficult requirement in the list of rules for creating a party is the collection of approximately 492,000 signatures from voters in at least nine states in the country. Since the time it took to create parties that have recently emerged, such as Rede and Novo, took years, Bolsonaro's political group hopes that electronic collection can speed up this process – and significantly so – since, to participate in an election, the party must be eligible at least six months before the election.
