Now, the former coordinator of the Federal Public Ministry intends to run for a seat in the election next October, even under the shadow of a decision by the (Superior Electoral Court) that did not consider him fit for the 2022 polls.
In an interview with Sheetlawyer Leandro Rosa, responsible for Deltan’s defense, said he is betting on analyzing the new candidacy record – “what happened in the last election remains in the last election” – and beforehand tries to gather “the broadest possible demonstration of evidence to reaffirm his eligibility”.
Deltan was the most voted name in the election four years ago among those competing for federal deputy for , but his candidacy registration for Podemos was rejected by the TSE in May 2023, when he .
At that time, the court concluded that Deltan was ineligible because to avoid the initiation of a PAD, an administrative disciplinary process. The unanimous decision opened a new understanding on the topic. For the former public prosecutor, it was .
Under the Clean Record Law of 2010, members of the Public Ministry who have requested dismissal while a PAD is pending are considered unfit to vote for a period of eight years. In Deltan’s case, there was no open PAD, but the TSE understood that ongoing procedures at the CNMP (National Council of the Public Prosecutor’s Office) could generate a PAD in the future.
“It is unequivocal that the defendant [Deltan]at the time of his dismissal upon request, he had already been sentenced to warning and censure in two completed PADs, and that he still had 15 different procedures pending against him at the CNMP to investigate other functional infractions”, said the rapporteur of the case at the TSE, minister Benedito Gonçalves, during the trial on May 16, 2023.
For Leandro Rosa, that 2023 decision was “circumstantial, specific, possibly due to the political environment at that time, and which will most likely not be repeated now”. Previously, in the TRE (Regional Electoral Court), also unanimously, the candidacy registration had been approved.
Now he states that, if the candidacy record is questioned again, other elements must be presented by the defense, to try to demonstrate that “the transposition into political life was an organized, reflected project, and not a maneuver with some hidden objective, to avoid a functional problem and use the candidacy as another alternative”.
Lawyer Paulo Henrique Golambiuk, president of Iprade (Paraná Institute of Electoral Law), states that Deltan’s candidacy can be considered “high risk”, since, regardless of the controversies in the case, a jurisprudence in the TSE has already been opened in 2023.
He remembers, however, that, in the Electoral Court, no request for candidacy registration can be summarily rejected.
“There will be a new trial. Those arguments invoked in 2022/2023, for either side, whether from the TRE or the TSE, will naturally appear as subsidies by the parties involved, but the judges in 2026 are not linked to that and will even be other people”, says Golambiuk, remembering that the compositions of the plenary sessions change every biennium.
In 2024, when he had already exchanged Podemos for Novo, Deltan moved to City Hall, but the plans did not move forward and he ended up supporting the candidacy of Eduardo Pimentel (PSD), from the Ratinho Junior (PSD) group and winner of that election.
That year, he also helped to recruit members and drive campaigns for supporters. The former prosecutor is presented as “national ambassador of the New” and .
In 2026, if his candidacy for the Senate is confirmed, Deltan must face opponents such as (PT) and share votes with names that operate in a similar spectrum to his, such as federal deputy Filipe Barros (PL) and (União Brasil).
The idea is that he and Filipe Barros join the ticket headed by senator Sergio Moro, who is .
Barros and Graeml are from the radical right camp and allies of former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is serving a sentence for an attempted coup d’état. Like them, Deltan defends amnesty for those involved in January 8, 2023 and routinely criticizes the (Supreme Federal Court). In the pre-candidate’s view, the court “pursues the right”.
On Deltan’s agenda, there is also the defense of what he calls “Christian and conservative principles”. Deltan attends the Bacacheri Baptist Church and has taken politics to evangelical events. At the end of January, at The Send in Curitiba, he mentioned the 2026 elections during his speech to the public, on a stage set up in a football stadium.
At the microphone and on his knees, he asked people to make “a commitment to vote for those who have the same values.” He also stated that he prayed for “God to remove those who practice corruption from office.” The Send is an evangelical event aimed at young people and, on January 31st, it took place in Curitiba and four other Brazilian cities.
