Starting this Sunday (5th), the Electoral Court will provide political parties with a list of all electoral fine debtors. This list serves as the basis for the issuance of certificates of dismissal, a document that is “a prerequisite for those who intend to run for public office in the 2022 elections,” the High Electoral Court (TSE) said in a note.

Electoral Court presents list of electoral fine debtors – Photo: Marcello Casal Jr./Agência Brasil/ND

According to the TSE, the main reason for refusal to register an application is the absence of this document. To view the list, parties must access the Party Affiliation System (Filia).

“The tool that the parties are accessing has special features to create files with this data. The user authorized by the header only clicks on the Files > Debt Data menu and generates the data whenever they want,” TSE said, referring to the rule provided for in the Electoral Law (Law No. 9,504/1997).

The Electoral Law, in addition to providing a certificate of exemption from electoral responsibility, details the documents that must be submitted when applying for registration of a candidate. “Among them are a copy of the protocol of the party congress, a certificate of exemption from the election commission, a certificate of party affiliation and a member’s permission to include his name as a candidate,” the TSE added.

“For the purposes of issuing a certificate, persons who: are sentenced to pay a fine, have, as of the date of registration of the application for registration of a candidacy, evidence of regular payment or installment of debt; and those who pay a fine that suits them individually, excluding any form of joint and several liability, even when it is imposed simultaneously with other candidates and on the same fact,” he explained.