With seven votes against zero, the magistrates rejected the accusation of interference of the entrepreneur Luciano Hang in the campaign of Senator Jorge Seif (PL-SC)
BRASÍLIA – The Regional Electoral Tribunal of Santa Catarina (TRE-SC) unanimously rejected, on Tuesday 7, the request for revocation of the senator’s mandate Jorge Seif (PL-SC), who served as Secretary of Fisheries and Aquaculture under the former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). Seif was accused of benefiting from the businessman’s resources Luciano Hangowner of a department store Havanain last year’s elections.
According to the complaint presented by the parties PSD, Brazilian Union AND Patriotthe parliamentarian would have used five planes and the Hang’s shop structure during the election campaign, without reporting to electoral justice. The seven ministers of the Santa Catarina court held that the businessman’s support could not be considered to have motivated Seif’s victory at the polls.
The trial rapporteur, Judge Maria do Rocio Luz Santa Ritta, argued that other right-wing politicians were elected in a “Bolsonarist wave” in Santa Catarinawhich would have been more important to the former secretary’s performance than any help from Hang.
In the dispute for Senate, Seif was elected with 1,484,110 votes (39.8% of the electorate). Former President Bolsonaro beat the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) with 69.3% of the electorate’s preferences.
In a note sent to EstadaoSeif said the TRE-SC decision “preserves the sovereignty of the popular will” and attests that the senator’s mandate was achieved “in a legal and democratic manner.
Source: Terra
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