People's Forces Unite in Action to Take Back Their Country, Affirm Rights

The elections are for the president of the republic, all 513 members of the Chamber of Deputies and one third of the 81 members of the Senate (which together constitute the National Congress), along with the governors of Brazil's 26 states and the federal district and the members of state legislatures and municipal councils. [...] The final draft presented to the 11 population in the referendum was the 25th version of the text as a result of different proposals received in the process of its collective construction by the people and the National Assembly of People's Power. [...] Party matters and the Parliament with the introduction of the ‘crossing the floor' provision and the process of By-Elections to fill vacancies in the Lower House, created thereby or otherwise -- Acts 15 and 16 of 1978, and for removal of the Speaker of the House -- Act 17 of 1995. [...] Amending the jurisdiction and powers of the Police Service Commission and the appointment of the Police Commissioner and Deputy Police Commissioners by final vote of the Lower House of Parliament -- Act 6 of 2006 and 12 of 2007 and a series of Orders of the President under those provisions since then. [...] None of these amendments have resolved what President Richards at the 50th Anniversary of Independence, described as the ‘area of brokenness' in our Constitutional arrangements -- the issue of the relationship between Tobago and Trinidad and the right to self-determination of the people of both Trinidad and Tobago and ends the forced union and establishes a free and equal union between them.