The rapporteur upholds the loss of Iris's political rights.
The decision by the Court of Justice, which would imply the loss of the former mayor's political rights for three years and place him on the list of those with a criminal record, was postponed after a request for review by a judge; the case relates to the hiring of an advertising company without bidding in 2006.
Goiás 247_ The reporting judge in the case, Alan Sena Conceição, upheld yesterday the decision that suspends the political rights of former mayor Iris Rezende (PMDB) for three years. The 5th Civil Chamber of the Court of Justice of Goiás (TJ-GO) was judging yesterday Iris's appeal against the decision issued in 2010, but Judge Geraldo Gonçalves da Costa requested to review the case, which interrupted the judgment.
A new hearing has been scheduled for next Thursday at 13 p.m., according to a report in the newspaper O Popular. The case refers to a 2008 lawsuit in which the State Public Prosecutor's Office recommended Iris's conviction for administrative misconduct.
The accusation is that the former mayor, in charge of the Goiânia City Hall in 2006, rigged a bidding process by hiring the advertising company Stylus Propaganda e Consultoria.
Stylus is owned by Hamilton Carneiro, an advertising executive and friend of Iris, who was the campaign strategist for the PMDB party member in several campaigns.
The lawsuit alleges that the company was hired for three months, without bidding, for the amount of R$ 1 million, to provide advertising services to the city hall. The hiring was based on article 24 of Law No. 8.666/93, which authorizes the waiver of bidding in cases of emergency or public calamity.
In the 2010 ruling, when Iris was a candidate for governor of the state, the judge of the 3rd Municipal Public Treasury Court determined that the contract was illegal because no emergency justifying the urgent need to hire the advertising agency without a bidding process had been demonstrated.
The judge also considered the amount of R$ 1 million for a three-month contract to be "exorbitant".