Coach and digital influencer Pablo Marçal was convicted for the second time by the Electoral Court. This time the prosecution indicates misuse of the media, fundraising and unlawful resource spending, as well as abuse of economic power during his mayor campaign of Sao Paulo in 2024. The decision determines that he is ineligible for eight years and pay a fine of $ 420,000.
There is still an appeal of the decision. In February, the influencer had already been ordered to be out of the next elections for offering to record support videos for right -wing candidates, in exchange for transfers via Pix of R $ 5,000.
The new lawsuit was filed by the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), by federal deputy Tabata Amaral, who also disputed the city and denounced the abuses of the competitor. The party claims that Marçal monetized voters who spread excerpts from their videos as a candidate, which is prohibited by the electoral law.
The coach defense claimed “no gravity in the facts pointed out in order to unbalance the claim or influence the result of the elections”, as reported by columnist Monica Bergamo, in Folha de S.Paulo.
But in August 2024, the court itself ordered the temporary suspension of the candidate’s official profiles on social networks and prohibited him to remunerate “the cutters of his content.”
Platforms like Instagram, Tiktok, and X blocked the profiles, but Marçal’s support community was active on Discord. This, according to the judge, was encouraged by the defendant himself, asking the cutters “to continue doing what needed to be done.”
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As the daily fine for non -compliance was R $ 10,000 and disobedience followed 42 days, the judge established the fine of R $ 420 thousand.
