Overview
- Electoral authorities retotalized Rio votes after the TSE ruled Anthony Garotinho ineligible, excluding his 274,411 ballots and raising Douglas Ruas's share to 50.88%, a figure the court used to proclaim him elected in the first round.
- The PSD has filed ADPF 1362 at the Supreme Federal Court to suspend the retotalization and force a second-round vote on the grounds that the excluded ballots changed the majority calculation.
- Eduardo Paes lodged an Ação de Investigação Judicial Eleitoral (AIJE) at the TRE-RJ seeking cassation and eight-year ineligibility for Ruas and his running mate, alleging vote-buying, coercion, abuse of economic power and misleading campaign leaflets.
- The AIJE cites seized cash (including R$600,000 in Niterói and R$2,000 in Teresópolis), disputed panflets such as 100,000 'DOUGLAS RUAS – EVANGÉLICO' paid with FEFC funds, false leaflets linking Paes to other parties, and social-media reports of paid votes as indicia that need investigation.
- Immediate remedies are constrained because the TSE told the STF it lacked technical conditions to hold a rerun on the presidential second-round date, leaving the outcome dependent on pending judicial rulings and further probes by electoral police and prosecutors.