"president fernando collor de mello"
shows his brother...

The thing about our supreme court is that, everything is Writen in the contitution. Healthcare. Pensions, civil right, working rights, and therefore every single legal dispute can end up in the supreme court. Furthermore supreme court juegos can rule over a sentence and not take it to voting by the other supreme judges,  granting them excepcional power over our institutions.

10:29 That's not Fernando Collor de Mello is his brother Pedro which exposed the corruption scheme his brother was involved in, and lead to impeachment.
The legislature also has the ability to pass budget amendments, effectively acting as an executive branch. So this leads to a 'twist' on the system, executive acting as legislative and vice versa.

Shoutout for the guy who said that "one would think that after five constitutions we would have learned how to write a good one" 😂

I loved the use of Bachianas Brasileiras as soundtrack.

Brazil is fortunate in one respect not to have U.S.-style midterm congressional elections, since divided government and separately timed elections can contribute to conflict between Congress and the presidency in the United States.

One feature of Brazil that I found especially interesting is that the president can appoint members of Congress as cabinet ministers. A deputy or senator who becomes a minister does not permanently give up the congressional seat; a substitute takes the seat while the legislator serves in the cabinet. The president also does not need ordinary congressional confirmation to appoint cabinet ministers, whether they come from Congress or from outside it. That gives Brazil an interesting parliamentary-like element within an otherwise presidential system.

Brazil's highly fragmented party system is also fascinating. Its open-list proportional representation system elects deputies from multimember state districts, some with very large district magnitudes. That can make it easier for numerous parties and candidates to compete, although Brazil's fragmentation cannot be explained by district magnitude alone. The open-list ballot, party and coalition rules, candidate-centered campaigning, and Brazil's broader political history have all contributed.

Brazil therefore combines a very presidential constitution with a few institutional practices that can make executive-legislative relations look surprisingly parliamentary.

Everything seems normal until you remember that in 1993, Brazil ask its people 2 question: 1. Republic or Monarchy. 2. President or Parliament. Which leads to the funny possible outcome that Brazil could have had a shared head of state between a hereditary monarch and an elected president.

19:10 well you didn't commented nothing about last year STF situation

10:30 that’s his brother Pedro Collor de Mello whom whistleblown the scandal corruption that was within his brother's campaign.

Thank you very much for this video. It’s embarrassing to admit, but even I, as a Brazilian, didn’t understand this system as well as it was explained in this video.

a lot of these things ARE NEEDED because of Brazilian culture of corruption and distrust in each other. if you know Brazil, you know WHY we need so many checks and gatekeeping. and still it fails sometimes lol

The public ministry part is so surprising, thanks for the learning! Never heard of this sort of 4th branch of government anywhere else. Wonder if another country has something similar or Brazil is unique here. Curious if anyone knows of a comparable setup and a more efficient one….

This video came at the perfect time! Really well done and informative!

Great video!! Very well researched!

Your work is really good, you should have more views. It's really well made

This system is so beautyfully design, it's a shame that it's dying...

The General who started the 1964 coup, Olimpio Mourão Filho, spent his life complaining about the presidential system: he said that was the root of all problems.

We had a plebiscite in 1990 where we could have changed to a Parliamentary system. At the time, the Brazilian Social Democratic Party - Pres. Cardoso's party - headed the Parliamentary campaign while the Presidential campaign was run by many of the most corrupt parties and, stragely, two historically important leftist parties: PDT (Worker's Democratic Party) and PT (Workers Party). The Presidential system won.

OBS: Campaign funding has changed in recent years and is highly controlled - corporations cannot do campaign donations and citizens have a cap on how much they can donate. There is a federal fund given to parties, also.

"you have to cast your vote"
no, you don't have to cast your vote. at all.
you have to either: 1) attend the voting booth on election day, either to cast a vote (which can be a void vote, if no candidate appeals to you) or to declare that you won't be voting, usually because you're not located where you're registered to vote; or
2) if you don't attend the voting booth on election day, you have to use a cellphone app to register that you didn't vote.

if you fail to both attend the booth on election day and notify your absence, you have to pay a fee that amounts to a few US dollar cents. if you fail to do even that, which is astonishing, then you temporarily lose the right to take hold of public offices, for example. I've never met anyone who was incompetent enough to go that far, though.
I really wish people would stop saying that 'you have to vote!!!!". it's simply false.

Very good video! I'm Brazilian and this video is excellent! I'll make some observations, though:

There were some cybersecurity specialists who warned about problems with the ballot - including researchers from the University of Campinas and from Armed Forces (from their technology research branch). AFAIK, these problems were fixed. There is a Law Scholar, Walter Maierovitch, who always repeats the phrase "For Caesar's wife, it's not enough that she be honest - she must appear to be honest". That's where a demand for a printer to be attached to the electronic ballots that would produce a record that could be used to audit the elections. The TSE resists adopting the measure because of costs.

The Brazilian electoral system - including the TSE and other electoral courts - was created by a dictator, Getúlio Vargas. Before his administration, elections were basically "for show" only. He became president in 1930 though a political coup and in 1937 became a full fledged dictator - he left in 1945 after Franklin Roosevelt's death. It was during that second period that Brazil joined the Allies in WWII and Franklin Roosevelt visited the country. Getulio Vargas would be elected president, democratically, in 1950 and became president in 1951. During his presidency there was serious political instability and in 1954 he did something that ended the instability and basically destroyed his opposition: he put a bullet in his heart becoming a national hero in death. He is considered the most important political leader of the Republic and the best Public Administration school in Brazil holds his name: Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV).

It is from the historic archives of the FGV that I got these lines about Gen. Olimpio Mourão Filho:

In his view, the ills of Brazilian politics—whether before or after 1964—stemmed not merely from the succession of military figures in power or their personal hortcomings as rulers, but from the presidential system itself; by concentrating vast powers in the hands of the president, this system “transforms the Executive into the dominant branch and nullifies the independence of the other two, disrupting the balance.”

Here's their historical archive's homepage: https://www18.fgv.br/CPDOC/acervo/arquivo

It is bloated. Changes are extremely slow. It is frustrating. But the system being the way it is, is what made me confident that, in the depths of the crisis that led to Dilma Rousseff's impeachment, Brazil would never turn into a Venezuela no matter what the outcome was. I still hold this view.