Renan Santos Calls Toffoli Ruling Persecution and Cites Minister’s Links to Banco Master

Renan Santos has denounced a court order suspending his presidential campaign, calling it illegal and politically motivated. The Missão candidate said the decision prevents him from publishing on social media, taking part in debates or attending candidate interviews.

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The decision is illegal, the decision is persecutory.

Justice Dias Toffoli suspended Santos’s online electoral advertising after Santos failed to identify, within the legal deadline, the social-media accounts he managed. The judge considered the omission an indication of fraud. The order also suspended all of Santos’s profiles and imposed fines for noncompliance.

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That Dias Toffoli has just suspended my campaign. I cannot produce content on social media. I cannot post content. I cannot take part in debates, I cannot attend candidate interviews. I can practically do nothing.

Santos said the problem was technical and argued that thousands of other candidates had faced errors while registering their campaigns. He called the situation absurd. The candidate could still lose his registration if he fails to justify the violation of electoral rules.

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It is all because of a technical problem.

He also linked the decision to his criticism of Toffoli and the minister’s alleged involvement in the Banco Master case. Santos said he had called four demonstrations over the past year against Toffoli and others connected to the scandal. "I am paying the price for standing up for what I stood up for," he said.

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I am paying the price for standing up for what I stood up for.