Brazil already has, for the 2024 Elections, at least 132 registered LGBT+ pre-candidacies. This data was revealed in the first bulletin of the Voto Com Orgulho Program, prepared by the National LGBTI+ Alliance and released this week.
The partial bulletin shows that there is a significant concentration of pre-candidacies from this community in the Southeast, South and Northeast regions, while the Central-West and North regions have smaller numbers. To date, the State of São Paulo leads with the largest number of pre-candidates for councilor and city hall (34), followed by Rio de Janeiro, with 22, and Paraná, with 14.
Minas Gerais and Pernambuco have nine pre-candidates each, while Rio Grande do Sul has ten, and Paraíba, six. Bahia, Ceará and Santa Catarina have five pre-candidacies each. Alagoas, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso, Piauí and Rio Grande do Norte each register four pre-candidacies, while Maranhão appears with three. Pará, Goiás and Sergipe have two pre-candidacies each, while Amazonas and Tocantins have only one each.
Among the registered pre-candidacies, 46 are affiliated with PT, 25 with PSOL, 18 with PDT, 13 with Rede Sustentabilidade and 13 with PSB. Other parties also have representation, with five pre-candidates affiliated to PV, six to Podemos, four to Cidadania, four to Progressistas, five to MDB, three to PCdoB, two to PSD and two to Solidariedade. Parties such as Republicans, AGIR, União Brasil and Partido da Mulher Brasileira (PMB) have only one pre-candidacy each.
Regarding political-ideological orientation, 94 pre-candidates identify themselves as left-wing, 33 as center-left, 12 as center, seven as extreme left, two as right-wing and two as center-right. Another relevant fact is that 52.7% of pre-candidates are black people (black and brown), totaling 79 pre-candidacies.
The director of Public Policies of the National LGBTI+ Alliance and general coordinator of the Voto Com Orgulho Program, Cláudio Nascimento, informed Agência Brasil that, in the program, the objective is to encourage greater representation of LGBTI+ pre-candidacies in elections, of a non-partisan nature. “We do not have a preference for any party, because it is non-governmental work, and it is understood that everyone organizes themselves the way they see fit.”
He also celebrated the result of the first part of the program this year, considering that, in April 2020, the number of pre-candidacies did not reach 30. A new part should be released every one or two weeks.
Source: Maxima
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