The minister André Ramos Tavaresdo Superior Electoral Court (TSE)became ineligible until 2028 the entrepreneur Luciano Hangthe mayor of Santa Rosa (RS), Anderson Mantei (PP), and former mayor of the city Alcides Vicini (PP). It is up to appeal.
The decision, rendered on May 27, occurs in the context of an action filed shortly after the election of 2020 by the União do Povo coalition by Santa Rosa, from Orlando Disonso (PT), second in the election.
According to the action presented in the Electoral Court, Hang was in the municipality four days before the elections and would have announced the installation of a unit of the Havan network during an act.
During his speech, the businessman asked for votes for Mantei and criticized the PT. Also at the event was the federal deputy Osmar Terra (PL-RS), who was defendant of the action, but was acquitted.
The invitation for the entrepreneur to hold the event in Santa Rosa would have been made by the then mayor Alcides Vini. This, as reported in the process, configured abuse of political and economic power.
For Minister Ramos Tavares, who was rapporteur of the action on the TSE, “Luciano Hang used the structure (plane) and Havan stores (upon promise of installation) to influence local elections by adopting strategy to dismiss the credibility of leftist parties’ applications – in this case, the PT candidate and the plaintiff coalition – and, concurrently, and concomitantly, to praise the candidates of the candidates other investigated “.
“Luciano Hang played a central role in the conduct investigated, either as a public figure, or from the appeals of the legal entity of which he owns, so it is up to him to sanction ineligibility for the elections that take place in 8 (eight) years following the 2020 election,” determined the TSE minister.
A CNN Try to contact businessman Luciano Hang, with Havan, besides the current and former mayor of Santa Rosa.
