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Brazil’s Electoral Justice has already rejected more than 1,200 candidacies
According to data from the Superior Electoral Court analyzed by G1, most of the cases remain at the appeal stage. Legislative candidacies account for the bulk of the rejections.
Brazil’s Electoral Justice had, as of Tuesday night the 16th, a total of 1,200 rejected candidacies, according to data from the Superior Electoral Court analyzed by G1. Of that total, 888 cases were still within the appeal period and another 326 had already been definitively rejected.
The majority of the cases correspond to candidacies for proportional offices. Still according to G1, there were 561 rejections for state deputy, 494 for federal deputy, 73 for alternate seats, 31 for senator, 24 for governor, 19 for vice governor, 9 for district deputy and 1 for president. There were no rejected vice presidential candidacies, although there was one registration pending resolution.
Among the best-known names affected by adverse decisions are Pablo Marçal, whose presidential registration was rejected by the Superior Electoral Court on the basis of the Clean Record Law, as well as Anthony Garotinho, José Roberto Arruda and Eduardo Cunha, G1 reported.
The report adds that about 73% of the cases are still seeking to reverse the situation in court. Among the parties, the largest absolute volumes of rejected candidacies appear in DC, with 185; Democrata, with 154; Agir, with 144; and Mobiliza, with 134. Those four forces account for 617 registrations. Also listed are PCO, with 70 cases, Avante, with 64, PSOL, with 45, and PSDB, with 42.
The most frequent reasons for rejection were formal failures in the filing of the registration, lack of eligibility conditions, problems in the DRAP, lack of electoral regularity, grounds for ineligibility provided for by legislation, failure to comply with the gender quota and failure to step down from office. G1 clarified that a single candidacy may accumulate more than one reason for rejection.
By state, Piauí recorded the highest percentage of rejected candidacies, at 20.9%, followed by São Paulo with 12.9%, Sergipe with 9.2%, Rio de Janeiro with 7.8% and Pernambuco with 7.2%. At the other end were Mato Grosso do Sul, Ceará, Espírito Santo, Rondônia and Santa Catarina, always according to the survey published by G1.
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