The result of a process to define registry office commands will be released this Tuesday (26), in the midst of a long legal process that involved the local courts and the (National Council of Justice).
According to the CNJ, Alagoas is the last state to adapt to the 1988 Federal Constitution, which requires competition to grant these services.
The president of the (Supreme Federal Court) and the CNJ, will be in Maceió on Tuesday to participate in the session to publicize the list of classified candidates.
The competition has been held over the years, from legal challenges over the registry offices that should be declared vacant to difficulties in forming the committee responsible for organizing the competition.
The CNJ needed to summon a member of the , judge Marcelo Berthe, to preside over the organizing committee, since, in 2014, all of the then 15 judges of the Court of Justice of Alagoas were prevented from leading the group, either because they were relatives of candidates or because they were relatives of interims who were responsible for notary offices.
Legal challenges still continue, but none of them prevent the event from progressing. In this final stretch of the contest, judge Fernando Tourinho, president of the TJ of Alagoas, accepted the Union’s request to overturn two injunctions in writs of mandamus and suspend 13 legal proceedings.
In his decision, signed on November 16, Tourinho recalled that the 15 cases were being processed in Alagoas courts without the Union being notified, although the public competition is being organized under the umbrella of the CNJ, which is a body linked to the Unity.
“It is obvious, from this perspective, that bringing legal uncertainty and uncertainty regarding the closing date, preliminary decisions have been issued directly interfering in the competition, both assigning grades to candidates and, consequently, determining the redefinition of the classification order drawn up by the commission organizer,” he said.
For the Union, the legal proceedings could put at risk “all the work carried out by the CNJ over the last ten years”.
Tourinho’s order, overturning local decisions, was seen positively by the CNJ. “It is being fulfilled, albeit belatedly and with a lot of resistance, what the 1988 Constitution requires,” said Barroso.
President of Anoreg (Association of Notaries and Registrars of Brazil), Rogério Portugal Bacellar, congratulated the work of the competition committee and the TJ of Alagoas. “It was done in a transparent way”, he assesses.
The last stage of the competition ended on November 17th, with 741 oral exams and title analysis. More than 200 vacancies are up for grabs.
Notary offices are a government concession in which a person is responsible for ensuring the integrity of official records, such as those of real estate, births, marriages, deaths, powers of attorney, wills and minutes. Before the Constitution, they used to be family institutions, passed from father to son.
