December 11, 2022

15:12

Ana Pastana – Amazon Agency

MANAUS – With reservations and determining the collection of R$ 5 thousand for irregularities, the Regional Electoral Court of Amazonas (TRE-AM) approved the accounts of elected state lawmaker Thiago Abrahim (União Brasil) relating to the election campaign 2022. The order was made on Wednesday, 7.

Before, the Electoral Public Ministry (MPE-AM) It had ruled by the disapproval of the accounts of the state lawmaker elected. In the decision, the prosecutor Catarina Sales Mendes De Carvalho considered that there were irregularities in the provision of accounts that “made it impossible to control and monitoring exercised by society throughout the electoral process this year”, brings excerpt from the order.

Among the flaws pointed out in the process, the MPE-AM highlighted the delay in the delivery of campaign financial reports, related to donations (art. 47, I, of TSE Resolution 23.607/2019); delay in the delivery of partial accountability (art. 47, § 4, of Resolution 23.607/2019); divergence between the donors’ data contained in the accountability and the information contained in the database of the Federal Revenue Secretariat of Brazil (art. 32, § 1, VII, of TSE Resolution n. 23.607/2019); and omissions regarding the expenses (related to Facebook) contained in the rendering of accounts under examination and those contained in the database of the Electoral Justice (art. 53, I, g, of TSE Resolution Page 3 n. 23.607/2019).

The document details that the total funds raised by Abrahim’s campaign was R$ 642,815.10, and the total donations were R$ 151,000.00. “That is, the control of 23.49% of campaign resources was compromised. As if that were not enough, the largest donation, amounting to R$ 110,000.00, took almost a month to be informed”, he points out.

Thus, the Federal Public Ministry understood “not be possible to apply the principles of proportionality and reasonableness to the case, especially considering the other irregularities”, highlights another part of the decision.

The body also considered that there was “not only compromised transparency, but also the impediment of effective social control, since the voter is the main recipient of information in the provision of accounts”.

See the full decision of the MPE-AM:

See the full decision of the TRE-AM: