Find out what Cármen Lúcia’s 10 rules are for judges in the 2026 elections

The president of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE), Cármen Lúcia, stated in a speech at the opening of the judicial year at the Electoral Court that she will send guidance to the electoral courts on the conduct of judges in a campaign year.

In her speech, the minister stated that the year 2026 will require judges to have “more rigorous behavior”, in addition to greater transparency.

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“We have to be rigorous and uncompromising with any type of ethical deviation, so we must avoid them,” he said. “It is a general election year in which specific issues require us, electoral judges, to behave more rigorously in our conduct, and transparent in our actions, motivations and decisions”, stated Cármen.

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The president of the TSE informed that she will send conduct recommendations to magistrates of the regional electoral courts (TREs) on February 10th. In a speech at the opening of the judicial year at the TSE, Cármen said that he will recommend that the TREs start publishing agendas and that members exercise restraint in public demonstrations.

See the ten rules proposed by the president of the TSE:

1. The publicity of hearings with parties and their lawyers, candidates, political parties or direct or indirect interested parties is guaranteed, disclosing the agendas for their holding, whether they occur inside or outside the institutional environment;
2. Whether the magistrate is restrained in his interventions and public demonstrations or in private professional agendas on matters relating to the electoral process, whether or not the topic is subject to his jurisdiction;
3. The appearance of a member of the judiciary at a public or private event, in which, during this election year, candidates, their representatives, members or those directly interested in the electoral campaign come together, creates a conflict of interests, which compromises the integrity of judicial action;
4. Manifestations, in any medium, including electronic media, about the political choice of the magistrate or magistrate are unacceptable, as they establish doubt about the impartiality of the decision to be taken in the exercise of jurisdiction;
5. Magistrates should not receive offers or gifts that cast doubt on their impartiality when deciding;
6. It is not permissible, ethically or legally, to signal favor or opposition to candidates, political parties or ideologies, which may lead to conclusions or conclusions regarding favoritism or persecution in the trial;
7. Lawyers who make up the electoral judiciary must remain away from participating in acts or proceedings in which the law firms they are part of are represented;
8. The judge must not engage in non-judicial activities that affect the fulfillment of their functional duties. The judicial function is a personal performance, non-transferable and irreplaceable by the magistrate;
9. It is the competent authority’s responsibility to make judicial and administrative acts public, preventing misinterpretation or inappropriate disclosure relating to the electoral process by people outside the process;
10. The transparency of the actions of the Electoral Justice bodies, their magistrates and their magistrates is a republican imposition. Only with broad publicity of what is happening in the electoral process and in the actions of magistrates and Electoral Court officials will the right of voters to safe and fact-based information be guaranteed. And then, your choice in the electoral process will be free and Democracy will have been protected.