This Sunday (27), the Electoral Court of São Paulo condemned businessman Pablo Marçal (PRTB). That of 2025.
In both decisions of the 1st Electoral Zone of São Paulo, Judge Antonio Maria Patiño Zorz determined that Marçal is ineligible for eight years.
In a statement, that the “decision is temporary. We have complied with all legal requirements during the campaign. I trust in court and I am sure we will reverse,” he said.
Understand the differences in sentences:
What is the difference of penalties?
In the first conviction, Marçal was sentenced to eight years of ineligibility. This time, the determined decision is ineligible for eight years and pay a fine of $ 420,000 for non -compliance with the injunction.
Are ineligibilities added?
A CNN He talked to Dr. Isabel Mota, a lawyer specializing in law and electoral process, who explained that the illegibility penalties are not added.
“The penalty of ineligibility is like Bolsonaro’s, it does not add in time, that is, it is not a penalty added to another. It counts from the election. If you have ten convictions, it will be the same time from the election,” Mota explained.
What is the difference in accusations?
In April, Marçal was convicted of abuse of political power, economic power, misuse of media and illicit fundraising.
At the time, according to the magistrate, the electoral of candidates for councilor through videos released on the internet. The disclosure would cost $ 5,000. These requests were made from videos published on social networks.
In one of the recordings, Marçal said:
“I’m competing for an unfair election here where I don’t use public money and the ‘handsome’ spend $ 100 million to go misleading advertising and here I want to ask you a question: you know someone who wants to be a councilman and is a candidate, who is not on the left, left, if that person is good and wants a video of mine to help boost her campaign and talk here, right? Will do what? She will send a pix to my donation campaign, pix of five thousand.
To the CNN interviews5, Pablo Marçal said that he did the video, but was warned by the legal team itself not to continue with the idea: “It was not realized, it has no materialization of it,” the businessman told journalists at CNN Clarissa Oliveira and Pedro Venceslau.
In today’s decision, the magistrate accuses Marçal of abuse in the misuse of the media, capture and illicit spending of resources and abuse of economic power.
According to the magistrate, Marçal cooperated collaborators to disseminate content on social networks, using the ‘cutting’ system, short videos.
The user registered, learned to do and, consequently, after publication, began to obtain views. Depending on the amount of views, it was remunerated by Marçal or his companies.
The judge understands that “the payment of these” cutters “of content with financial resources would prevent the inspection by the Electoral Court of its origin and destination.”
In addition, the magistrate cites the offer of gifts, such as caps, delivered after draws to those who promote propaganda to voters.
What are the parties involved in the actions?
The first decision was moved by the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), Guilherme Boulos and Amor for São Paulo Coalition (PSOL/Rede Federation, Brazil of Hope Federation/PDT).
The perpetrator of the second conviction was Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB), a party of Tabata Amaral, also a candidate for São Paulo City Hall in 2024. In a statement, the advisory that “the sentence of the electoral judge puts, once again, boundaries for those who try to overcome the barriers imposed by the Electoral Justice to ensure that the election runs fairly. held responsible ”.
