Samara Martins: Although called the elections the 'festival of democracy', it is an extremely undemocratic process.
Samara Martins: So much so that we have called it an electoral war, because the sides are extremely... unequal.
We don't have television airtime, we don't have radio airtime, we don't have party funding because of that barrier clause you put in, which stipulates that only those who have elected federal deputies will receive all those allocations.
Samara Martins: Which already puts us at a disadvantage, because we are in our pre-candidacy with our members funding our pre-candidacy with the voluntary contributions they give to the party.
Samara Martins: We don't have that fund that is guaranteed to those other traditional parties.