[8] And a system of free party political broadcasts during election time known as the horário eleitoral gratuito.
[9] Since 1982, Brazilian political parties have been given an electoral number to make it easier for illiterate people to vote.
[11] Party federations, on the other hand, are legally different from coalitions in that they are longer-lasting, have a national scope and require ideological unity.
Unlike coalitions, the parties that make up a federation are treated as a single party in legislative activity and in elections; they are prohibited from acting independently in the legislative houses or from filing election-related lawsuits, as the federation has the sole legal standing to do so.
[12] This list presents the parties of the current Sixth Republic that were once recognized by the Superior Electoral Court, but have ceased to exist.