For passive corruption and money laundering and no term since 2023, the former president of Mello has of which he owns.
The minister of the (Supreme Federal Court), and Collor is.
In 2022, Collor was a candidate for governor for, after 16 years he was a senator’s mandate. She had a deputy party, and during the election campaign said she had the support of the then president. Even so, it didn’t even advance to the second round and got 16% of the valid votes.
Allied at the time, the chances of victory for the government, but less difficult than the reelection in which Collor would have to face Franco Renan Filho (), who left the state government with good evaluation months before the vote.
The political isolation of the former Mandator could be seen in the 2018 election, in which he gave up the government candidacy less than a month in the first round. Members of his coalition avoided climbing the stage, and he found it better to leave the dispute. “I fulfill my word, but I ask for reciprocity. In its absence it loses meaning the mission attributed to me. Without unity, it loses its meaning its meaning of existence,” he said at the time.
As a parliamentarian, Collor also bet on amendments to stay in evidence in the interior of the state, participating in machinery and equipment delivery events.
The former president was a senator for two terms. The return to Brasilia came after the victory in 2006, when he beat former governor Ronaldo Lessa (PDT), in a fierce dispute. It was Collor’s first triumph after in 1992, when he left the Presidency of the Republic.
In 2014, he was reelected for the Senate in a coalition that raised Renan Filho to the government of Alagoas. Years later, the Calheiros clan broke with the former president.
Currently, the former president appears more aligned with Governor Paulo Dantas (MDB) than to the management of the mayor of Maceió, JHC (PL). Maceió’s deputy mayor, Rodrigo Cunha (Somos), was Collor’s opponent in the dispute of the government of Alagoas in 2022, in which they argued in a healed way in one of the debates.
The former president still tries to advertise his years in presidency, such as the implementation of the Consumer Protection Code, the demarcation of the Yanomami Indigenous Land and the participation in the creation of Mercosur.
Alagoas, besides the Calheiros, has as another great political force the group of former mayor Arthur Lira, PP. In last year’s election, the MDB made most mayors, with 65, followed by the PP, with 27.
Before being president, Collor ruled the state from 1987 to 1989. He was also appointed mayor of Maceió at the end of the military dictatorship. Today, in the field of communication, his family owns the organization Arnon de Mello, which has TV, radio and digital newspaper and its own print.
There is also an affiliated television broadcaster, which in court the endorsement for the end of the bond with the Alagoas channel using the former president’s conviction in the Supreme.
This is because the investigation that led to the conviction and now to Collor’s arrest points out that TV Gazeta would have been used by the former president to launder money. The accusation was the fuse for Globo to seek contract termination with the Alagoas communication group.
The end of the partnership was authorized in March by Minister Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva, of the Supreme Court (Superior Court of Justice).
The magistrate agreed with Globo’s argument that “incurs injury to public order by applying the company’s preservation principle disproportionately and abusive” maintaining the deal with TV Gazeta. The final decision should come out by June.
TV Gazeta wants to keep the bond with Globo, which prevents the network from seeking a new affiliate, which has been ready to start operations since last year.
According to the channel Alagoas, without having the contribution of Globo, the company will not be able to comply with agreements to pay debts in its judicial recovery, in force since 2019.
In October 2023, as the columnist of the Sheet Globo has reported to TV Gazeta that it would not renew the bond because of scandals involving the station in recent years. Collor’s TV has been affiliated with Globo since 1975.
In two decisions in which he analyzed the situation, the Alagoas Court of Justice has accepted TV Gazeta elections and granted unfavorable decisions to Globo, which took the case to the STJ, where it succeeded.
In the state, the Gazeta group also has radio and newspapers, which give muscles to the influence of the Collor family in the state. This Friday,.
In 2024, a nephew of former president, son of Pedro Collor and Thereza Collor, was a candidate for Maceió councilman for the PSB, but did not elected himself.
