Presidents of sections of the state and the Federal District were reappointed to the position or elevated to the Federal Council of the entity in elections marked by the victory of candidates from the situation.
The process of choosing legal representatives began on November 17th and lasted until last Saturday (30th), when the OAB Piauí election took place, the last in the states. The mandates are for the next three years, from 2025 to 2027.
The election defines, using the slate model, the board of directors of the section, which includes the positions of president and vice-president, the board of directors of the Lawyers’ Assistance Fund —which manages benefits for lawyers—, the delegation to the Federal Council and state counselors .
On the 21st, . Current vice-president, he won the election alongside Patricia Vanzolini as a candidate for federal councilor, who currently presides over the section.
. Opposition candidates criticized the prominence that the current president received during the campaign, to the detriment of her vice-president, Daniela Magalhães.
The pattern of the president being elected to the Federal Council of the Order is repeated in at least six other states: Ceará, Minas Gerais, Paraná, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte and Santa Catarina, in addition to the Federal District.
Three from each section, the and form the lists with legal nominees for vacancies in the TRFs (Federal Regional Courts) reserved for the constitutional fifth.
In Ceará and Pernambuco, as well as in São Paulo, not only was the current president elected federal councilor, but the person who won the succession election was the vice president.
Christiane Leitão and Ingrid Zanella, two women, won in those states. For the first time, OAB Ceará and OAB Pernambuco will have women as presidents.
The Rio de Janeiro section, which elected Ana Tereza Basílio on the 25th to lead the entity, partly deviates from the script. The current president, Luciano Bandeira, did not even run for office. Still, Basílio is the deputy in this administration and received his support.
The majority of state sections (14) opted for the re-election of their representatives: Acre, Alagoas, Amazonas, Bahia, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Sul, Rondônia, Roraima, Sergipe and Tocantins.
Of the 26 elected to lead entities across the country, only 4 were from the opposition. Érica Neves (OAB Espírito Santo) and Sávio Barreto (OAB Pará) defeated the current presidents. Israel Gonçalves da Graça (OAB Amapá) and Raimundo Júnior (OAB Piauí) beat candidates supported by the current management.
In the last election for sectionals, in Piauí, the current president, Celso Barros Coelho Neto, ran as a candidate for substitute federal councilor on the ticket headed by Aurélio Lobão Lopes.
