nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/52af3ea37d761e31 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260529s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/52af3ea37d761e31 doi eng 342 23 Platz Pereira, Diego Author aut (orcid)0009-0001-9615-4703 The Problem Is Not Politicization - Comparative lessons from judicial elections gone wrong in Germany and Brazil Platz Pereira, Diego Verfassungsblog 2026-05-29 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier 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. CC BY-SA 4.0 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 (DE-588)14575-0 gnd Brasilien. Supremo Tribunal Federal | Rio de Janeiro; Brasília (DE-588)2117905-0 gnd Deutschland. Bundesverfassungsgericht | Karlsruhe Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/politicagem-court-elections/ raw object