  The deconfinement and chiral phase transitions are studied in the context of
the electrized quark matter at finite temperature in the two-flavor
Polyakov-Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. Using the mean field approximation and an
electric field independet regularization we show that the effect of temperature
and/or electric fields is to partially restore the chiral symmetry. The
deconfinement phase transition is slightly affected by the magnitude of the
electric field. To this end we show how the effective quark masses and the
expectation value of the Polyakov Loop are affected by the electric fields at
finite temperatures. As a very interesting result, the pseudocritical
temperatures for chiral symmetry restoration and deconfinement decrease as we
increase the magnitude of the electric fields, however, both start to increase
after some critical value of the electric field.
