STF Majority Upholds Dino Order, Leaving Roraima Special Election With One Candidate

Overview

• A majority of the Supreme Court's First Chamber on June 12 backed Minister Flávio Dino's interim order, a result that in practice leaves interim governor Soldado Sampaio as the only eligible candidate in the Roraima special election.
• Dino's May 27 monocratic decision required the Roraima regional court to replace its 24‑hour resignation rule with the statutory desincompatibilization periods of three to six months from Lei Complementar nº 64/1990.
• Two leading challengers, Antônia Pedrosa (PT) and Arthur Henrique (PL), were declared ineligible because they resigned under the shorter TRE‑RR schedule and therefore did not meet the longer statutory deadlines.
• The case has produced an institutional impasse: the TSE placed the TRE‑RR resolution under virtual plenary review but suspended its vote after Justice Estela Aranha asked for a view, and the Prosecutor‑General Paulo Gonet formally opposed the PL's request to suspend Dino's order.
• The dispute tests a common electoral practice that has often allowed 24‑hour flexibility in supplementary races and could reset how courts apply desincompatibilization rules and handle mid‑election injunctions as remaining votes at the STF and TSE will decide the final outcome.