TheBrazilian Election Justice (Portuguese:Justiça Eleitoral do Brasil) was created by Decree No. 21,076 of 24 February 1932, representing one of the innovations of theBrazilian Revolution of 1930. In 1932 the first edited Brazilian election code was passed.[citation needed] It was inspired by the election justice of theCzech Republic and the ideas ofJoaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil, a politician, farmer and ambassador.[1]
Nowadays, the existence and regulation of the Election Justice in Brazil is determined in the articles 118 to 121 of theFederal Constitution of 1988, that established its exclusive attribution of theFederal Union legislating about election law.[2]
The Election Code and other laws give executive and legislative powers to theSuperior Electoral Court (TSE). The law, even if it is named to provide judicial powers, include an aggregation of administrative and normative functions as well.[3][4]
In othercountries, the solutions adopted to distribution of powers in the election process differ from one country to the other.[5] InArgentina andFinland the executive power itself administers the elections; In the United States, France and Germany, this role is played in city level; inChile andUruguay, there are independent organs, outside the public powers structure.[citation needed]
The functions[6] of Elections Justice are the following:[7]
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