The former governor of Ceará and presidential candidate Ciro Gomes (PDT) was registered in the Serasa Experian default register last Friday, 28, due to a debt of R $ 1,000 for non-payment of attorney’s fees. The amount refers to a judicial conviction suffered by Ciro after losing a lawsuit against journalist and influencer Felippe Hermes in 2023. Sought, the politician did not speak.
Ciro went to court against the journalist to try to exclude a publication of Hermes who criticized his proposal about Petrobras, as well as requesting compensation of $ 10,000. The post called Ciro’s suggestion “crazy” and mocked that it could take Brazil to the Credit Protection Service (SPC), referring to the “Clean Name” program, defended by the pedestrian in the 2018 elections to regularize the situation of millions of defaults.
Ciro sued Hermes, claiming that the disclosure of the text could reach the “unique purpose of disagreeing the image”. In the decision, Judge Alexandre Schwartz Manica, from the 10th Civil Court of Porto Alegre, rejected the request, using the fact that Ciro was subject to criticism due to the greater exhibition.
“The plaintiff, being a politician, is exposed to greater visibility, a greater public exposure, where criticism as an opinion, does not always hurt the image and intimacy, because there are ideological disputes, and greater tolerance with certain manifestations, proper to the political game, should have been tolerance,” wrote the magistrate. Ciro was ordered to pay 10% of the total amount of the requested indemnity, but did not pay and was included in the Serasa register.
This is not the first time Cyrus has faced financial problems related to lawsuits. In 2024, the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJ-SP) authorized the attachment of assets of the former governor of Ceará for not paying a debt of $ 31 thousand. The amount was referring to attorney’s fees resulting from an action that Ciro lost against journalists from Abril Communications in 2018.
