Minister Flávio Dino asked this Thursday (9) for a view of the processes that deal with the elections to choose the buffer governor of Rio de Janeiro, who will command the Guanabara Palace until the end of the year.
Dino stated that he prefers to wait for the publication of the ruling in which former governor Cláudio Castro (PL) was convicted at the TSE (Superior Electoral Court). He defended the continuation of Judge Ricardo Couto, president of the Court of Justice, as interim governor until the case is concluded.
The trial was interrupted with a tie in favor of direct and indirect elections. Minister Cristiano Zanin, rapporteur of the process, maintained this Wednesday (8) his position in favor of the election by popular vote. Luiz Fux took a stand in favor of the election made between the state deputies of Alerj (Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro).
The plenary of the Supreme Court began judging this Wednesday the complaint proposed to the Supreme Court by -RJ, from the former mayor, pre-candidate for governor, asking for direct elections to be held in the state.
The argument is that the resignation of Cláudio Castro (PL) on the eve of the TSE trial, in March, was a maneuver to avoid the direct election, which could be determined by the court in the event of impeachment in the trial in which the former governor was convicted.
The Constitution of Rio de Janeiro provides for an indirect election, by state deputies, if the double vacancy of the positions of governor and deputy occurs without electoral conviction. The state has been without a vice-governor since last year, when Thiago Pampolha resigned to take up a seat at the TCE (State Audit Court).
