PDT calls STF and asks for annulment of the election in Alerj

The PDT filed a lawsuit with the Federal Supreme Court (STF), this Monday, asking for the annulment of the election that led deputy Douglas Ruas (PL) to the presidency of the Legislative Assembly of Rio (Alerj). In the Claim of Non-Compliance with Fundamental Precepts (ADPF), the party represented in parliament by state deputies Martha Rocha and Vitor Júnior also requests the call for a new election, but this time with a secret vote.

The party states, in the piece, that the choice of deputy Douglas Ruas “constituted an unequivocal affront to fundamental precepts of the Constitution of the Republic, notably the freedom to exercise the parliamentary mandate, the autonomy of the Legislative Power, the principle of administrative morality, the due legislative process and the integrity of the democratic regime itself, compromising the legitimacy of the deliberative process and the authenticity of the institutional will formed”.

Before the vote, the PDT state directory had already tried to suspend the election with an open vote in the Rio Courts, but the request was denied, allowing the election to take place, which ended with Ruas’ victory by a large majority among those present.

The party also requested that the “definitive unconstitutionality of the practice of open roll call voting for elections, as well as any normative or administrative act that supports it, be declared, due to violation of the fundamental precepts of the Federal Constitution, in particular the republican principles, separation of powers, morality, and federative symmetry, as well as due to an irremediable formal defect in the alteration of Alerj’s Internal Regulations”.

“What is subjected to judicial scrutiny is not the result of the electoral process in Alerj, but its own validity, compromised by defects that affect the legitimacy of the exercise of power and republicanism itself, so important to the formation of a Democratic State of Law”, stated the acronym.

The judicial offensive reinforces the climate of instability surrounding the Alerj command. Friday’s election had already been marked by a boycott by left-wing parties. In total, 25 deputies did not participate in the vote, causing the plenary to be emptied.