Sale of support and fake news about Party Fund; Why Marçal is ineligible

Influencer Pablo Marçal (PRTB) was sentenced to ineligibility because he sold political support in the 2024 campaign. In a video published on social networks, he offered to record videos promoting councilor candidates for $ 5,000.

In a live broadcast on Friday, the influencer said he will appeal the decision. He claimed that he did not “materialize” the videos because he was barred by the campaign’s legal team.

Pablo Marçal was a candidate for the city of São Paulo in the 2024 municipal elections and finished third, with 1,719,274 votes (28.14% of the valid votes).

By offering to publicize the councilors, he said he was “competing for an unfair election” because he did not use public money while “the” handsome “spend $ 100 million to make misleading advertising.”

“You know someone who wants to be a councilman and is a candidate, who is not leftist, ok, left no need to warn. If this person is good and wants a video of mine to help boost her campaign, you will send this video and say ‘bro, look here what opportunity, right?’ What will this person do? She will send a pix to my donation campaign, pix of five thousand. Made this donation, I send the video. You will click here on the form clicked here on the form, register, the team will contact us. Tamo together, closed, you help here in Sao Paulo and I help from there. ”

Judge Antonio Maria Patiño Zorz of the 1st Electoral Zone said Pablo Marçal ineligible for abuse of economic and political power, misuse of media and illicit fundraising.

The sentence states that the supply made by the influencer “was taken seriously by candidates for councilor who made donations confirmed by the defendants” and had “potentiality to tarnish the integrity of the electoral process due to the effect they produced on the political conscience of citizens.”

Judge Antonio Zorz also stated that he spread fake news About the party fund and “put, severely distorted, as a victim of an unfair electoral system that did not allow it to use public funding from the electoral fund.” With this, in the magistrate’s evaluation, the influencer compromised the “normality and legitimacy” of the election.

As the decision was made at the first instance, there is a possibility of appeal to the Regional Electoral Court.