The Superior Electoral Court (TSE) decided today (5) to confirm the removal of the ineligibility of former Rio de Janeiro mayor Marcelo Crivella. In the same decision, the ministers unanimously imposed a fine of R$ 15,000 on the former mayor.
Crivella was considered ineligible for eight years, in September last year, in a judgment by the Regional Electoral Court of Rio de Janeiro (TRE-RJ). He was convicted of abuse of political power, for the participation of employees of the Urban Cleaning Company (Comlurb) in a meeting in support of his son, Marcelo Hodges Crivella, who was running for federal deputy in 2018, but was not elected.
Ineligibility had been ruled out since October 2020, when minister Mauro Campbell Marques, through an injunction, granted a request made by the defense. Crivella competed in last year’s elections, but was defeated by the current mayor, Eduardo Paes (DEM).
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