Overview
- The Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Paraná approved Deltan Dallagnol’s candidacy by a 4–3 vote while fining him R$100,000 for litigating in bad faith over disclosure of a confidential STF document.
- Relatora Vanessa Jamus Marchi delivered a detailed ruling finding that the administrative files at the Conselho Nacional do Ministério Público were closed without punishments and therefore did not bar eligibility.
- The Ministério Público Eleitoral had issued a written opinion supporting registration on the grounds that CNMP procedures were archived by prescription or found unfounded after Dallagnol left the MPF.
- Dallagnol’s legal team successfully argued that the TSE’s 2023 decision refused registration for that election only and did not impose an explicit eight‑year ineligibility, a point the PT‑PR says it will appeal.
- The case returns the dispute over whether resignation to avoid disciplinary proceedings creates lasting ineligibility to the center of Brazil’s electoral law debate and sets up a probable new review at the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral.