Brazilian municipal elections, 2008
- Brazilian municipal elections, 2008
The Brazilian municipal elections of 2008 will be held on October 5 and October 26. [cite web |url=http://www.tre-sp.gov.br/eleicoes/2008/paginas/calendario_2008.htm |title=Elections calendar | publisher = Tribunal Regional Eleitoral de São Paulo | language=Portuguese] Over 130 million voters will choose mayors and city councillors for the 5,565 municipalities of Brazil. [cite web |url=http://agencia.tse.gov.br/sadAdmAgencia/estatistica/estatisticas2008/info_gerais.htm |title=Elections statistics | publisher = Tribunal Superior Eleitoral | language=Portuguese]
Brazilian law allows candidates to run under ballot names different from their legal names. At least six candidates have chosen the ballot name "Barack Obama" [cite news|url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/15/brazil.barackobama | title="Now for Brazil's Barack Obamas - all six of them"|author=Tom Phillips| publisher=The Guardian| date=2008-09-15] and some entrepreneurs use ballot names that make reference to their business. [cite news| url=http://eleicoes.uol.com.br/2008/ultnot/2008/09/26/ult6120u49.jhtm |language= Portuguese | title="Candidato-empresa" aproveita eleição e promove sua firma
author= Rodrigo Bertolotto | date=2008-09-26 | publisher= UOL Notícias]
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