http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/52af3ea37d761e31 https://verfassungsblog.de/politicagem-court-elections/ The Problem Is Not Politicization - Comparative lessons from judicial elections gone wrong in Germany and Brazil Platz Pereira, Diego eng 2026-05-29 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 BVerfG Brasilian Supreme Court Brasilien. Supremo Tribunal Federal | Rio de Janeiro; Brasília Brazil Brazilian Supreme Court Deutschland. Bundesverfassungsgericht | Karlsruhe German Federal Constitutional Court Politicization elections Brasilien. Supremo Tribunal Federal | Rio de Janeiro; Brasília Deutschland. Bundesverfassungsgericht | Karlsruhe Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 When judicial nominations fail, the instinct is to blame politicization. But the collapse of Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf's candidacy for the German Federal Constitutional Court and the historic Senate rejection of Jorge Messias for Brazil's Supreme Court point to a different diagnosis. The problem did not lie in politics as such – but in the Brazilian intuition of “politicagem”: the subordination of judicial selection to short-term electoral performance.