A candidate for councilor in the interior of Bahia, to whom messages circulating in the region are attributed, would have recorded in WhatsApp audios not only the purchase of votes in but also the demand for the return of money via Pix from those who, at the polls, did not comply with the combined.
The story circulates in a city with just over 20 thousand inhabitants, 600 km away from .
“Guys, use common sense, it hurts your conscience. You took my money and didn’t vote [sic] in me. Give my money back, please, I’ll pass my Pix here. Whoever has God in their heart should give my money back”, says the woman in the audio, supposedly sent to a group on the app.
“Look, what have I been helping people. It was glasses, it was dentures, it was a basic food basket, I helped in every way to make what happened happen. People from Oliveira dos Brejinhos, people came to apologize, but no, the people don’t have It’s my fault, the culprit is whoever took my money and didn’t come back”, the audio continues.
“It’s time to correct your mistakes, give my money back, please. Let me pass my Pix, whoever has God in their heart, whoever is from God, who sends my money. Whoever is diabolical, from the devil, will pay in the fires of hell what you did to me.”
A Sheet contacted the candidate to whom the audios are attributed, whose name on the ballot box was Geni do Carvão (PSD), using the telephone number she provided in the candidacy registration.
A woman answered and, after identifying the reporter, hung up and no longer answered calls or responded to messages sent. THE Sheet He also contacted members of the municipal council and informed them of the content of the report, but there was no response.
In a second audio allegedly sent to a friend, the woman claims to have bought 1,090 votes, but only received less than 5% of that.
“Think of a disgraceful place, full of criminals, thieves, it’s called Oliveira dos Brejinhos and surrounding regions. (…) I spent a hundred thousand and a few thousand, bought 1,090 votes. I said, there’s always a thief, a criminal, a fake, a scoundrel , you can falsify me, steal from me, but I calculated that I had around 900 votes. Can you believe I only had 27 votes?”, says the supposed candidate in the audio.
“Whoever did this to me isn’t happy. I’m already partly happy. A criminal who took my money caught fire in her house yesterday. She called me asking for help, I said, ‘go to hell, you bastard, you wouldn’t even die. inside her, criminal.’ Thank God, God is already punishing. Whoever messes with me, my daughter, messed with Jesus.
Geni do Carvão received 27 votes and, when reporting his campaign to the Superior Electoral Court, he reported having received R$10,000 from the PSD’s electoral fund. He also recorded that he spent half the amount on vehicle rental and the other on a campaigner.
The 11 councilors elected in the city had 481 to 965 votes.
The electoral fund quota was passed on to the candidate by decision of federal deputy Sérgio Brito (PSD-BA). He said he knew Geni, but stated that he did not know the story or the existence of the audios until he was contacted by Sheet.
He stated that he made standard transfers of R$10,000 to several PSD candidates in cities where he has good votes.
“I, as a PSD deputy, nominated it for all my municipalities. As I had no resources for men, I decided to nominate it for all women in all the municipalities in which I am voted,” said Brito, referring to the legal requirement allocation of at least 30% of the funds to candidates.
“There were three women there in Oliveira dos Brejinhos, if I’m not mistaken. Then I went out distributing them, because it’s a quota, you know, mandatory. I didn’t have any resources for the men, so I said, ‘I have to do something here to help , within the law, these women’. What they do with the resource, I have no access to.”
A Sheet He contacted the national PSD, led by Gilberto Kassab, who, through his advisors, informed that the response would be given by the party’s local leadership.
President of the party in Bahia, the senator sent the case to the Ethics Commission, which opened an administrative process that could result in the former candidate’s disaffiliation.
“The law must punish those who made mistakes. I will file a process to remove her from the party if this situation is proven. Of course, giving the right to a broad contradiction”, stated the senator.
Buying votes is an electoral crime, described in article 299 as the act of “giving, offering, promising, requesting or receiving, for oneself or for others, money, gifts, or any other advantage, to obtain or give a vote and to obtain or promise to abstain, even if the offer is not accepted”. The penalty is four years in prison, plus a fine.
