Taddone Calls Supporters to Sign Comites Committees in SP

The candidate for the Comites of São Paulo, Daniel Taddone, called on Italian citizens registered in the São Paulo district this Saturday (12) to sign their support for the Democratici in Brasile (DIB) list, which will compete in the 2026 Comites elections. According to Italianismo, Taddone is currently the territorial representative of Brazil at the CGIE (General Council of Italians Abroad) and is running for a seat on the Comites of São Paulo on a slate that brings together 22 candidates and needs to collect a minimum number of signatures to be officially registered.

What Taddone Asked of Italians in São Paulo

According to Italianismo, Taddone's request was directed specifically at Italian citizens eligible to vote in the São Paulo district, inviting them to appear at the consulate this Saturday to formalize their support for the DIB list. The slate is part of the electoral process that will renew the advisors of the Comites (Comitati degli Italiani all'Estero) in various regions of Brazil, including the jurisdiction of the Italian Consulate-General in São Paulo.

For a slate of candidates to be accepted by the electoral organization, it is necessary to gather signatures of support from voters already registered. Without this minimum number, the slate cannot be officially presented and its candidates are left out of the race. This is why candidates like Taddone have publicly mobilized the community to ensure the slate is validated within the deadline established by the electoral calendar.

How the Signature Collection Works

According to Italianismo, the Italian Consulate-General in São Paulo, located at Avenida Paulista, 1963, opened extraordinarily this Saturday, from 10am to 1pm, specifically to authenticate signatures of support for the slates competing for the Comites. Saturday service is an exception to normal business hours, created precisely to facilitate participation by voters who work during the week.

Each competing slate needs to gather support from at least 200 voters who have been registered for at least six months in the São Paulo consular district. Anyone who signs must present an official photo ID, and signature authentication is done free of charge, in person, at the consulate itself.

Beyond this Saturday's service, Italianismo reported that the São Paulo consulate will open on extra dates in the coming weekends, always during the same hours, from 10am to 1pm:

• September 19
• September 26
• October 3

These Saturday office hours are in addition to regular business hours Monday through Friday, from 1pm to 4pm, reserved for signature collection. According to the report, itinerant consular missions will also take place in other cities to serve voters residing outside the state capital, including Ribeirão Preto, Campinas, Santos, Cuiabá, and Porto Velho. Those who follow news from Italy in Brazil have seen mobilization grow as the deadline for closing the slates approaches.

Why the Comites Matters for Italian Descendants

The Comites is the body that officially represents Italian citizens residing abroad before consulates and embassies, acting on social, cultural, welfare, and integration matters for the Italian community spread around the world. In Brazil, there are Comites in different consular districts, and the body is only established where there are at least 3,000 Italian citizens properly registered with the local consulate.

The mandates of elected advisors last five years, and renewal through elections, as is happening in 2026, is the mechanism by which the community chooses who will represent it on these matters before Italian authorities.

A central point, however, is that only those who already possess recognized Italian citizenship and are properly included on the electoral list (AIRE) can vote and sign support slates. This reinforces, once again, the importance of regularizing the recognition process of Italian nationality for those who have not yet done so — without this formal recognition, the descendant remains outside not only the vote for the Comites, but also a series of rights linked to citizenship. For those seeking to understand current rules on the topic, the portal brings together updated information in the Italian Citizenship section.

The movement around the Comites elections also illustrates how the life of the Italian-Brazilian community remains connected to Italian institutions, a topic that Raízes Italianas closely follows both in consular matters and in aspects of culture and daily life described in the Life in Italy section.

The electoral process of the Comites of São Paulo continues its course with the expectation that the Democratici in Brasile list will gather the necessary number of signatures within the deadline. New stages of the electoral calendar should be released by the consulate in the coming weeks.

Source: Italianismo