()’s pre-campaign for the Presidency used a precedent from the Federal Audit Court () of his father’s government as an argument to try to prevent Lula from promising the end of the 6×1 scale
This Monday (27), PL’s legal team sent a representation to the (Superior Electoral Court) in which it mentions the TCU’s understanding that the president cannot defend policies that have not yet been implemented and that depend on the approval of other Powers.
This is the case of the end of the 6×1 scale, one of the president’s main electoral bets, which is still the subject of a proposed constitutional amendment being processed in the Chamber of Deputies. If approved in two rounds, it will still need to pass through the Senate.
The TCU precedent cited is from September 2019, when the TCU suspended the campaign of then-president Jair Bolsonaro’s government to approve measures that became known as the “anti-crime package”. The advertisement had been designed by the then Minister of Justice, Sergio Moto.
According to Flávio’s pre-campaign representation, “the TCU, when considering advertising campaigns financed with public resources and aimed at promoting legislative proposals still in progress, established an understanding that the dissemination of content of this nature does not meet constitutional limits precisely because it is a matter still subject to changes within the scope of the Legislative Branch, and does not represent consolidated public policy”.
The expectation of the senator’s allies is that the TSE, based on this understanding, considers that Lula cannot speak about the proposal to end the 6×1 scale, under penalty of committing abuse of political power.
In the representation to , Flavio’s pre-campaign also recalls that Lula had committed “evident abuse and misuse of purpose” in a Women’s Day speech in March.
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