Brazil is a representative democracy, where the people choose their representatives through voting. Elections take place every four years for president, federal deputies, state deputies, senators, councilors and mayors. But they alternate every two years: in 2006, the last general elections for president, deputies and senators took place. In Brazil, voting is mandatory and, as in India, we have numerous political parties. These parties are subsidized by the State (called the Electoral Fund) and the parties with the greatest appeal, in addition to receiving funds from this Fund, are financed by powerful private sector companies -- their idealism is very amusing 😂 This Electoral Fund distributes a very small part equally, and the rest is divided by the significance of each party, measured by how many politicians were elected in the past elections, which by the way is not at all democratic.