BRASÍLIA (Reuters) – On Friday, the Inspector General of Electoral Justice, Minister Luis Felipe Salomão, sent a report summarizing two actions calling for the revocation of the Bolsonaro-Mourão ticket to the General Electoral Attorney (PGE), despite President Jair Bolsonaro’s defense request for testimony from a Pocketnarist businessman.
Now, the PGE will have 48 hours to comment on the actions that call for the cancellation of the diplomas of Bolsonaro and Vice President Hamilton Mourão and the declaration of ineligibility for eight years by the President of the Republic and his vice for abuse of economic power and misuse of the media in the 2018 elections.
“The evidence was widely produced and the inquiries in progress at the STF (Supreme Federal Court) were shared with us. The actions were thoroughly investigated. We made an effort to judge them, close them and now we are managing to finalize them”, said the minister of the TSE, noting that on some occasions the instruction process was reopened.
After this period of 48 hours, in case there is no need for further steps, the actions can be judged by the TSE plenary, on a date to be defined.
Earlier, Bolsonaro’s defense asked the TSE to take the testimony of the Pocket-born businessman Otávio Fakhoury, who admitted in testimony last month to Covid’s Senate CPI that he had funded campaign material for the then-candidate to Palácio do Planalto in 2018.
To the CPI, Fakhoury said that the amounts were addressed to a group of Bolsonaro supporters, without being directed to any political campaign and, for that reason, were not declared to the Electoral Court.
However, since 2015, when the STF (Supreme Federal Court) declared unconstitutional donations from companies for election campaigns, donations from individuals for campaigns must be registered with the Electoral Court under penalty of being considered as cash 2, a crime.
Fakhoury and also journalist Patrícia Campos Mello were listed by Bolsonaro’s defense to testify at the TSE in actions that investigate whether businessmen bankrolled mass messages on WhatsApp to favor the presidential ticket in 2018.
If they had been accepted, these requests could delay the progress of actions against Bolsonaro and Mourão and even make it impossible for the rapporteur of the actions, Minister Luís Felipe Salomão, to remain in charge of the cases. He leaves the post on October 29 and will be replaced by Minister Mauro Campbell.
(Reporting by Ricardo Brito and Maria Carolina MarcelloEdition by Alexandre Caverni and Pedro Fonseca)
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