Composition of the City Council changed 27.7% throughout the legislature

The composition of the Porto Alegre City Council in this election year is already quite different from that elected in 2020, in the last election. In the end, Throughout the legislature, ten elected parliamentarians left their seats, giving way to their substitutes. The change represents almost 28% of the current 36 seats in the Legislature. The opposition, made up of ten councillors, was the one that underwent the most changes, with the modification of half of its original composition.

THE PCdoB renewed its bench 100%formed by two councilors. The two representatives elected in 2020 left their seats in parliament in 2022, when they were elected to other elected positions. Daiana dos Santos became federal deputy, leaving Abigail Pereira in her place. Meanwhile, Bruna Rodrigues took over one of the seats in the Legislative Assembly, swearing in Giovani Culau, who currently holds the only collective mandate in the Chamber.

Already In the PT, of the four parliamentarians with a current mandate, two were elected in 2020. In 2022, then councilors Laura Sito and Leonel Radde were elected state deputies. In their places, Carlos Roberto Comassetto and Marcelo Sgarbossa were sworn in. However, neither is currently in parliament. While Sgarbossa lost his mandate due to party infidelity, leading Adeli Sell to assume his seat, Comassetto took leave to occupy a federal position at the invitation of minister Paulo Pimenta (PT), leaving his place for Everton Gimenis.

Complementing the opposition parties, PSOL had just one changealso in 2022. In the general elections, then councilor Matheus Gomes became state deputy. Thus, Alex Fraga took office at the City Council.

About that, on the government basis, the first of the changes took place in January 2020. On that occasion, the current mayor, Sebastião Melo (MDB), called on Cézar Schirmer, recently elected by MDB, to occupy the municipal secretariat for Planning and Strategic Affairs. The person who took over the position was the son of the Executive director, Pablo Melo.

The PSDB underwent a change of 25% of its seats. Of the four elected candidates, one left his seat in 2022: Kaká D’Ávila, who was elected state deputy. In the vacancy, Marcelo Bernardi took over.

Among the so-called independents, there were two changes. Felipe Camozzato (Novo) was elected state deputy in 2022, causing Tiago Albrecht to be sworn in as councilor. In the PDT, the then parliamentarian Mauro Zacher died of a sudden illness during his term in office, in June 2022. Thus, the person responsible for taking over the legislature was João Bosco Vaz.

There was also a revocation of office due to abuse of economic power, which led to the annulment of the votes of the elected councilor Alexandre Bobadra (PL). As a result, a new calculation of the electoral quotient was carried out, electing Cláudio Conceição (União) as councilor.

Party composition also changed

• Citizenship: gained one and kept it
• DEM: won a seat, but was extinguished
• MDB: won three seats and expanded to four
• New: won two seats and kept them
• PCdoB: won two seats and kept them
• PDT: won two seats and kept them
• PL: won one seat and expanded it to three
• Podemos: did not win any seats, but won two due to party changes
• PP: won two seats and kept them
• PRTB: won a seat, but lost representation due to party change
• PSB: won a seat and kept it
• PSD: won a seat and kept it
• PSDB: won four seats and reduced to three
• PSL: won a seat, but was extinguished
• PSOL: won four seats and kept them
• PT: won four seats and kept them
• PTB: won three seats, but was extinguished
• Republicans: won two seats and expanded to three
• Solidarity: won a seat and kept it
• Union: did not yet exist in 2020, but gained a seat due to party change