Overview
- The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral formed a 4–0 majority on Monday to uphold a relator’s liminar that suspends Deltan Dallagnol’s campaign acts while the court reviews his registration, with three ministers still to vote.
- The liminar bars transfers from party and campaign public funds, the airing of radio and television propaganda and other campaign acts until the TSE decides the pending appeal of a TRE‑PR decision that had approved his candidacy.
- Dallagnol’s team said it will appeal, argued it had no chance to present a defense before the monocrática decision and pointed to past ties between the relator and STF minister Alexandre de Moraes; Michelle Bolsonaro publicly called for the relator’s impeachment.
- A new Quaest poll released the same day shows the presidential race tightening, with Flávio Bolsonaro at 42% and Lula at 41% in a hypothetical second round, increasing the practical stakes of any limits on campaign funds and airtime.
- Separately, the Ministério Público Eleitoral asked courts to bar Antonio Rueda over alleged links to a militia‑linked political structure, a development that highlights wider judicial scrutiny of candidates after the TSE’s 2023 ruling that led to Dallagnol’s earlier cassation.