The stated this Monday (16) that he will request the ineligibility of the president () because of the carnival parade that honored him in . The party claims that the head of government committed abuse of political and economic power.
According to the acronym, the measure will be taken when the PT member registers his candidacy for re-election. The deadline for registration is August 15th.
Lula was honored by the Acadêmicos de Niterói samba school, in a parade that took place on Sunday night (15). The association received a quota of federal resources destined for the samba schools of the special group in Rio de Janeiro.
“We are not facing a political debate, but a legal fact. There was early electoral propaganda financed with public money. The consequence provided for in the law is clear and rigorous”, said the president of Novo, Eduardo Ribeiro.
At the beginning of February, technicians from the TCU (Federal Audit Court). The sponsorship, equal to the 12 schools in the Rio de Janeiro Special Group, was signed through Embratur.
The Court of Auditors also went, Lula da Silva, to organize one of the parade’s floats.
Furthermore, the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) against Lula, the PT and the Niterói samba school.
The case’s rapporteur, Estela Aranha, who was appointed to the electoral court by Lula, rejected the actions on the grounds that restricting artistic and cultural manifestations previously “because there was news of political demonstrations” would constitute “prior, indirect censorship and disproportionate restriction on democratic debate”.
The minister also stated that it was not possible to recognize early electoral propaganda in an episode that had not yet occurred, but that possible electoral misconduct could be investigated later. “It is not possible to even anticipate the fact that the first person represented will participate in this parade and, if eventually, on this occasion, some electoral offense will be committed,” he said.
The other TSE ministers followed the vote, but the president of the court, Cármen Lúcia, warned of electoral crimes.
“This doesn’t seem to be a scenario of white sand on a beach, it seems more like a scenario of quicksand. Whoever enters enters knowing that they could sink,” he said.
To Academics, on Sunday (15). The plot was “From the top of the mulungu comes hope: Lula, the worker of Brazil”.
The parade also criticized the former president (PL), Lula’s main political opponent. Bolsonaro was portrayed as a clown in prison clothes at the parade – because of .
Lula and Janja watched the parade from the box at Rio’s city hall, commanded by (PSD), an ally of the PT member. The president also went down to the track to watch part of the event.
There was an expectation that the first lady would parade on one of the Acadêmicos de Niterói floats, but she. Janja stated that he decided not to parade for .
There was also the possibility of ministers participating in the parade, but this hypothesis. In Janja’s case, the preliminary assessment made at Palácio do Planalto was that her participation .
It was the first time since the government that a major samba school in Rio paraded honoring a sitting President of the Republic. The episode dates back to the 1950s, when associations such as Vila Isabel and Portela celebrated Vargas’ return to power.
