Italian citizens residing in Brazil have only until 16 pm next Thursday (22) to send the envelopes with their votes for the parliamentary elections on September 25 to their reference consulate.
Envelopes arriving after this time will be invalidated. In the electoral college of Southern America, which includes Brazil, two deputies and one senator will be elected for the Italian Parliament, half of the current benches.
The reduction is the result of a constitutional reform approved in 2020 and which will reduce the number of parliamentarians in Italy by a third.
Each Italian citizen duly regularized at the reference consulate received two ballots by mail: one green, for the Senate, and another brown, for the Chamber of Deputies.
The back of these papers presents the symbols of parties and lists who have candidates in the Southern America constituency, and the voter must mark the one of their preference with an “x” or a slash.
Alongside, on the dotted lines, it is possible to write the surnames of up to two (in the case of the Chamber) or one candidate (in the case of the Senate) of the chosen party. The procedure must always be done with a blue or black ballpoint pen.
The ballots, filled exclusively with votes, must be placed in the small white envelope sent by the consulate – only brown and green ballots can be placed in this envelope, which needs to be carefully sealed and placed in the larger one (“response letter”), which It is already pre-sealed.
Next, you need to get the electoral certificate sheet (“electoral certificate”) and highlight the stub of the electoral certificate (“tagliando elettorale”). The latter, which does not contain the citizen's name, must also be placed in the large envelope (“response letter”).
The upper part of the electoral certificate remains with the voter. It is not necessary to specify the sender's name on the larger envelope, as the vote is secret.
Candidates
This year's elections will feature 12 candidates for the Senate across South America. Check out the candidates:
Emerson Fittipaldi
Andrea Matarazzo
Mario Aldo Sebastiani
Ivana Mainenti
Vicenzo Garruti
Marcelo Bomrad
Luciana Laspro
Mario Borghese
José Palmiotti
Rodrigo Miguel
Marcelo Zovico
Vicenzo Di Martino
Check out the South American candidates running for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies:
Fabio Porta
Renata Bueno
Luiz Molossi
Andrea Dorini
Luis Roberto Lorenzato
Antonella Pinto
Salvador Finocchiaro
Filomena Narducci
Thiago Troccoli de Almeida
Valentina Pococacio
Alessandro Fama
Giancarlo Colella
Francesca Galia
Vito DePalma
Claudio Zin
Nello Collevecchio
Franco Tirelli
Francisco Nardelli
Vincenzo Carrozzino
Eugenio Sangregorio
(with information from HANDLE).
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