Jair Bolsonaro’s party accuses former judge Sergio Moro of electoral corruption in Brazil

The Liberal Party (PL) of Brazil filed a lawsuit on Wednesday before the Superior Electoral Tribunal (TSE) against Sergio Moro, a senator elected by the Brazilian state of Paraná and former Justice Minister of former President Jair Bolsonaro, for electoral corruption.

Bolsonaro’s party PL claims the former federal judge also tried to circumvent electoral law by renouncing his candidacy in Brazil’s presidential election and running for the Senate, which would have led him to exceed his spending limit campaign, according to the newspaper O Globo.

Moro will have spent 6.7 million reais (1.2 million euros) between the pre-campaign for the Presidency and the campaign for the Senate, with the total spending limit is around 4.4 million (790 thousand euros). Likewise, another of the reasons given by Jair Bolsonaro’s PL is that the former judge took advantage of the remaining amount to leave Podemos and join União Brasil.

The set of actions was orchestrated in such a way that, among other irregularities, he took advantage of the presidential campaign to, in a second moment, migrate to a formation with less visibility and a spending ceiling 20 times lower, taking with him all the advantages and benefits unduly accumulated”, reads the accusatory text of the PL, quoted by the newspaper.

Jair Bolsonaro and Moro had a disagreement in 2020, when the former judge resigned as Minister of Justice, alleging that the then president intended to meddle politically in the Federal Police of the country and wanted to collect information within the institution, such as intelligence reports.

Main participant in the trial of the now Brazilian presidentLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for corruption in the Lava Jato operation, the Federal Supreme Court confirmed that Moro acted with partiality when he was a judge when sentencing Lula da Silva to prison, a sentence that was later annulled.