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Overview
- The plenary review opens with relator Isabel Gallotti reading her report before arguments from the Prosecutor-General’s Office and the defenses.
- Ministers expect a request for time to review the case, which could suspend the proceedings for days and delay any ruling.
- Rodrigo Bacellar’s lawyers filed a procedural “questão de ordem” seeking to halt or archive the case, arguing the omission of former UERJ rector Ricardo Lodi as a target shows selective treatment.
- União Brasil president Antonio Rueda petitioned to join Bacellar’s defense as an assistant, saying a conviction would affect the party’s representation in Rio.
- The case reaches the TSE after the Rio regional court acquitted the defendants for lack of proof; a conviction could lead to cassation and ineligibility, with the TJ-RJ president temporarily assuming the governorship pending a new election.