O TSE (Superior Electoral Court) should resume on Tuesday (26) the trial on the revocation of the mandate of the governor of Roraima, Anthony coin (PP), e do vice, Edilson Damião (Republicans).
The process had been stopped for over a year at court and.
In August 2024, the Court began the case analysis, when the defense and prosecution demonstrations were heard. No minister, however, even voted, and the trial was suspended without a forecast of resumption so far.
A penny foi condenado pelo TRE-RR (Regional Electoral Court of Roraima) In 2024, accused of abuse of political and economic power during the 2022 campaign.
According to the prosecution, he would have created social benefits in the election year, such as the “Family Basket” program, the transfer of income and distribution of basic food baskets, and “Morar Melhor”, housing reform.
For the court, such measures configured the use of the public machine for personal promotion of the governor and his deputy.
The TRE also identified a “expressive allocation of public resources” and the “exponential” increase of beneficiaries of social programs during the election period.
In addition, it considered irregular atypical transfers of about $ 70 million to municipalities of Roraima who were in a state of emergency due to heavy rains.
Based on these elements, the Regional Court ordered Denarium’s ineligibility for eight years and has summoned new elections for the State Government. Denarium and Damião appealed to the TSE, who can now confirm or overthrow the decision.
O MPE (Electoral Public Prosecution Service) He has already spoken in favor of cassation.
In the oral argument made last year, lawyer Fernando Neves, representative of the governor, contested the points of the conviction.
He argued that social programs were not created from scratch, only renamed, and that the transfers of resources to the municipalities occurred after approval by the Legislative Assembly, given the state of emergency provoked by the rains.
In an official note, the governor stated that he trusts the Electoral Court and awaits “serenity” the result of the trial.
“Governor Antonio Denarium follows his work agenda normally as chief executive, a government that has as its mark with support and great popular approval and the result, translated into state development, as never before seen in its history,” he says.
