The Court of Auditors of the State of Paraná (TCE-PR) will have a joint and intense action with the Electoral Court this year, with a view to holding the municipal elections in October. In addition to issuing a list of public money managers who had accounts deemed irregular, in a process that also involves municipal councils and the Legislative Assembly, the Court will adopt investigation mechanisms into the issuance of fake news, as stated by the president, counselor Fernando Guimaraes.

"In addition to the rapid exchange of information with the Regional Electoral Court, through channels already created, we are developing a system in the area of information technology, using robot and artificial intelligence, to capture all news that has content relating to management accounts for verify whether they have provenance or not. We will capture, analyze and disseminate this information, including on the TCE website, contributing to the fairness and transparency of the electoral process", explained the president.

 

Ineligible

The ineligibility of candidates in elections is provided for in legislation based on article 14 of the Federal Constitution. The Charter determined that citizens are prevented from voting for a certain period of time. However, the person's other political rights are not suspended, such as the right to vote and participate in political parties.

The list to be forwarded by the TCE-PR to the Electoral Court will include the names of people - not necessarily public servants or managers - who have used, in some way, public money in the last eight years and had accounts judged irregular in processes that have already passed. res judicata at the Court of Auditors.

In 2022 - when elections were held for president of the Republic, governor, senator, federal deputies and state deputies - the list contained the names of 1,726 people who had accounts rejected by the TCE-PR in the previous eight years.

The delivery of this material to the Electoral Court complies with article 71, II, of the 1988 Federal Constitution; article 75, II, of the Constitution of the State of Paraná and article 1, II and III, of the TCE-PR Organic Law. The measure is also provided for in the Ineligibility Law (Complementary Law No. 64/1990), the Clean Record Law (Complementary Law No. 135/2010), the Electoral Law (9,504/1997) and State Law No. 10,959/1994.