Governor of South Carolina, Carlos Moisés is acquitted in impeachment proceedings and returns to the presidency | St. Catarina

He was Acquitted by six votes to three and one abstention. The trial took place in the Plenary of the Legislative Assembly of Santa Catarina (Alesc), in Florianópolis, lasted about five hours and ended at 2:19 p.m.

According to the Santa Catarina Court of Justice (TJSC), Moses returns to office immediately. He will give a press conference at 5 pm to talk about the return to government.

“The court, after deliberating, decided that Governor Carlos Moisés did not commit the crimes of responsibility described in the representation and Carlos Moisés returns to his position immediately,” said Judge Ricardo Roesler, president of the Court of First Instance and the Court of Justice of Santa. Catarina, reading the summary of the session.

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• Judge Cláudia Lambert – against impeachment
• Judge Rubens Schulz – against the prosecution
• Judge Sérgio Rizelo – against the accusation
• Judge Carlos Alberto Civinski – against impeachment
• Judge Luiz Felipe Siegert Schuch – in favor of impeachment
• Congressman Kennedy Nunes – in favor of impeachment
• Deputy Laércio Schuster (PSB) – against impeachment
• Deputy Luiz Fernando Vampiro (MDB) – abstention
• Deputy Maurício Eskudlark (PL) – against impeachment
• Sergeant Lima (PSL) – in favor of impeachment

How did the complaint get to the court of first instance?

• Alesc’s request for impeachment was accepted on July 22.
• Eight days later, on July 29, the assembly officially opened the case. A special commission was formed within Alesc to analyze the complaint and the chosen rapporteur was Luiz Fernando Vampiro (MDB).
• On September 15, the commission voted unanimously to approve the report and continue with the complaint. The target, in addition to Moisés and the deputy, was also the former Secretary of Administration, Jorge Tasca, but he requested exoneration and was withdrawn from the process.
• Voting on the report in plenary in Alesc by all deputies, which occurred on September 17. First the complaint against the lieutenant governor was voted, then in relation to the governor. In both cases, the deputies chose to continue with the impeachment process.
• After the stage, the Special Sentencing Court was formed, which removed Moses, but acquitted Reinehr.

The Court of Justice of Santa Catarina (TJSC) validated the equalization of the salaries of state prosecutors in a trial held on Wednesday (25) in Florianópolis. The decision on the legality of the salary increase came a day after the interim governor annulled the administrative act of January 2019 that authorized the payment.

The appellants decided that the readjustment given to the state prosecutors is legal and must be retroactive to the date it was authorized by Carlos Moisés, in January 2019. The trial lasted almost four hours.

Who was in the trial court?

The members of the trial court were elected on September 23. At the Santa Catarina Court of Justice, a lottery was held for the selection of the five judges: Cláudia Lambert, Rubens Schulz, Sérgio Rizelo, Carlos Alberto Civinski and Luiz Felipe Siegert Schuch.

In Alesc, there was a vote. The selected deputies were: Kennedy Nunes, Laércio Schuster (PSB), Luiz Fernando Vampiro (MDB), Maurício Eskudlark (PL) and Sergeant Lima (PSL).

Daniela Reinehr took office on an interim basis on October 27. Since then, he has made several changes to the top. The names of the Attorney General’s Office (PGE), Civil House, Military House, National Articulation and Secretary of State for Sustainable Economic Development were changed.

On November 17, the acting governor tested positive for coronavirus. He had mild symptoms and did not need to take medication, according to the state government. Due to illness, he suspended face-to-face appointments and remotely continued the schedule. On Thursday (25), Reinehr announced that he was recovered and ready to resume face-to-face activities.

2nd request for impeachment

In addition to this process that temporarily removed him from office, Moses defends himself against another Trial Court.

The governor is responsible for the crime of liability in the purchase of 200 respirators at R $ 33 million paid in advance and without delivery guarantee and for the attempt to contract a field hospital in Itajaí.

On November 12, the rapporteur for the second case delivered the report to the mixed court, made up of five other deputies and five judges. The date for reading and voting on the complaint has not yet been set.

A third request for impeachment against the governor was delivered by the Parliamentary Respiratory Investigation Commission (CPI) to Alesc on September 8. According to the assembly, this document was under analysis until the publication of this report. A fourth request, made by state deputy Ivan Naatz (PL), is also analyzed.

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