Minister Alexandre de Moraes, president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), denied an appeal by the defense of former president Jair Bolsonaro and his candidate for vice in 2022, Walter Braga Netto, against the decision that declared their ineligibility. The reason for the conviction was the use of the Bicentenary of Independence celebrations in Brasília and Rio de Janeiro for electoral purposes.
The defense wanted the appeal to be analyzed by the Federal Supreme Court (STF). Before that, the president of the TSE must analyze whether the action meets the requirements to be sent to the Supreme Court. Moraes understood that no. “The controversy was decided based on the peculiarities of the specific case, so that changing the conclusion of the appealed judgment presupposes a change in the factual and evidentiary set of records, a measure that proves to be incompatible with the extraordinary appeal”, he stated in the decision, which was published today and signed last Friday, 24.
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