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RIO – In just seven minutes, the Rio Regional Electoral Court (TRE) confirmed this Thursday, unanimously, the decision to make the mayor of Rio Marcelo Crivella (Republicans), a candidate for reelection, ineligible until 2026. There is still an appeal. before the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) against the decision. The mayor’s attorney, Alberto Sampaio, said he would appeal. The discussion had been suspended on Monday, when six of the seven members of the TRE had already declared in favor of the punishment. The discussion was interrupted at the beginning of the week because Judge Vitor Marcelo Aranha asked for opinions on the process, in the previous session. In today’s session, you followed the rapporteur and voted in favor of ineligibility.
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In theory, the TRE decision does not prevent Crivella from participating in the electoral campaign, which officially begins next Sunday. The decision will only have legal effects from the publication of the sentence. And, even before sentencing, Crivella’s attorneys can appeal to the TRE:
– The ordinary appeal in the TRE has immediate effects. It is not necessary to have a prior analysis in full or wait for the sentence to be published – says the lawyer specializing in electoral law, Alberto Rollo Filho.
The TRE session took place amid a controversy with the mayor. On Wednesday, Crivella challenged the vote of one of the court members, attorney Gustavo Alves Teixeira, who has already cast his vote. For the mayor, Gustavo should have declared himself prevented, because he works for the office that advises Lamsa, the concessionaire that operates the Yellow Line. Crivella fights a legal battle to take Lamsa.
The tactic did not work Right at the beginning of the session, Rodrigo Roca, one of Crivella’s lawyers, asked to speak to raise a point of order. But the president of TRE-RJ, judge Cláudio Brandão de Oliveira, prevented him from proceeding:
– I speak in the interest of the investigated Marcelo Crivella. And I have a point of order and before a power to do …- Roca began
Cláudio Brandão interrupted the lawyer:
– I don’t understand how inelegant it is. Attorneys from all sides have already had the opportunity to speak. We are in the middle of the trial. The word now belongs to the last member left to judge. Then, the trial if you want to enter with a statement of embargo or another procedural measure – said the president of the TRE
Crivella’s thesis had been questioned before by members of the TRE itself. A petition from the defense regarding the state of Gustavo Teixeira was analyzed by the Court before the start of the trial on Monday and, unanimously, the appellants agreed that there was no impediment.
Teixeira explained that he even declared himself impeded in another process that involved the mayor of Rio, due to his work with the concessionaire Línea Amarilla, but that, after a new analysis, he considered that “there was no inclination by any of the parties.”
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The trial refers to an episode that occurred in 2016, when Crivella participated in an act on the Estácio de Sá field when he asked for votes for his son, Marcelo Hodge Crivella, who was a candidate for federal deputy. At that time, Comlurb vehicles were used to transport company employees to the meeting.
Crivella played down the episode on Estácio’s court, stating that her son was not chosen. And he recalled that the fact was presented by a CPI in the Rio Chamber, which had a governmental majority.
