Bolsonarista candidate loses election at OAB in Amazonas

Paulo Maffioletti and João Cleuter: unpretentious election (Ygor Fábio Barbosa/Revista Cenarium)

Carolina Givoni – Cenarium Magazine

MANAUS – Advocate of President Jair Bolsonaro, the lawyer Paulo Maffioletti lost the election for the command of the sectional of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB) in the Amazon on Tuesday, 16, in the dispute with the lawyer Jean Cleuter Simões.

Cleuter got 82% (3,068) of the votes against 18% of Maffioletti, and will preside over the OAB/AM for the next three-year term (2022-2025). The Bolsonarista candidate did not comment until the closing of this article. Only the two lawyers ran for the election.

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Paulo Maffioletti became known for being the creator of the “Movement of Pro-Bolsonaro Lawyers” and, in January 2020, pulled movement to collect signatures to join the would-be party of the president, the Union for Brazil, which ended up not leaving the paper.

In Manaus, he is constantly seen organizing demonstrations in favor of the president and against the Supreme Court (STF), such as an act held on September 7, which occurred throughout Brazil. In the capital of Amazonas, the adhesion took place in upper middle class neighborhoods.

The Bolsonarist lawyer ran for office with the speech of “take the OAB/AM out of the hands of the left”, but had anti-democratic statements, such as support for Jair Bolsonaro’s verbal attacks against the ministers of the Supreme Court.

Candidate from the ‘Center

Apparently without defending party ideology, Jean Cleuter will face a three-year term in charge of the Amazonas sectional presidency and will succeed lawyer Marco Aurélio de Lima Choy, who served two consecutive terms ahead of the Order’s presidency.

“I want to thank the work of each one of you. We will work to guarantee more and more the strengthening of the Amazonian legal practice”, said Jean, as he was welcomed by supporters at the end of the counting.

Choy’s term, whose vice-president was attorney Grace Benayon, ends on December 31. Jean will take office on January 1st, 2022.

According to the press office of the OAB/AM, the vote had the support of the Regional Electoral Court (TRE-AM), which provided the electronic ballot boxes, IMMU Transit, Detran-AM and the Military Police.

The counting took place in the Arena da Amazônia, in the Midwest Zone of Manaus, with the presence of lawyers and lawyers who support both parties. Besides Manaus, lawyers voted in the cities of Parintins, Tefé, Manacapuru, Itacoatiara, Humaitá, and in Tabatinga, which attended the lawyers of Upper Solimões.

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