According to the document, what was published is that the majority of ministers voted to revoke the former governor’s diploma, and not his mandate, contrary to what was presented in the menu
O Electoral Public Ministry presented on Monday (4) appeals to the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), requesting a review of the trial summary than for abuse of political and economic power in the 2022 elections.
According to the Electoral MP, what was published is that the majority of ministers voted to revoke the former governor’s diploma (cancels electoral registration), contrary to what was presented in the menu, which mentions a mandate, not a diploma.
The Deputy Attorney General for Electoral, Alexandre Espinosa, asks that the revocation of the diploma be made clear in the document. A vappointment of the seven ministers occurred as follows:
- Isabel Galloti, Estela Aranha and Floriano de Azevedo Marques voted to revoke the diplomas of the winning candidate in the election;
- Cérmen Lúcia and Antonio Carlos Ferreira voted only to lose their mandate, without revoking their diploma;
- Kássio Nunes Marques and André Mendonça voted against the impeachment.
Soon, it formed majority for revoking the diplomaas the crime occurred before the elections, resulting in the loss of mandates. Furthermore, Castro and the former governor, Thiago Pampolha, had already resigned from their positions when the conviction was issued.
The revocation of the mandate would only be a consequence of the revocation of the diploma, which can be applied in Judicial Investigation Actions (Aije), as presented in the process of the Electoral MP against Castro.
So, according to the MP, Castro’s resignation does not rule out the application of the sanction in the Electoral Court. Still according to the appeal, the movement to accept the resignation to prevent the revocation of the diploma it would be “rewarding the procedural strategy of emptying the legal consequences of the electoral offense” and a form of shielding against the Electoral Court.
Remember the case
By 5 votes to 2, the TSE decided, on March 24th, condemn the former governor of Rio de Janeiro Claudio Castro for abuse of political and economic power in the campaign up for re-election in 2022.
With the result, Castro will be ineligible for eight years, starting from the 2022 election. Therefore, he should be prevented from contesting elections until 2030. On Monday (23), Castro resigned from his mandate and announced that he is a pre-candidate for the Senate in the October elections.
The former governor said he received the news with ‘nonconformity’ and that he is fully convinced that he has always governed Rio de Janeiro within the law “with responsibility and absolute commitment to the population”. “Today, it goes against the sovereign will of the almost 5 million voters in Rio,” he wrote.
