Brazil’s electoral court postponed a hearing on whether Deltan Dallagnol’s Senate candidacy in Paraná was valid. The court has not set a new date.
The hearing was delayed on Thursday, Oct. 8, at the request of the former prosecutor’s defense, Agência Brasil reported. Dallagnol received 2,904,594 votes, or 25.14%, in the Oct. 4 election, securing Paraná’s second Senate seat, but the validity of his registration remains under dispute.
The case stems from a 2023 TSE decision that removed Dallagnol from his seat as a federal deputy. The dispute is whether that ruling automatically made him ineligible to run for eight years or only ended his term in the lower house. Dallagnol argues that no election ban followed. TSE Justice Floriano Azevedo Marques and other judges hold that he is ineligible.
In September 2026, Paraná’s regional electoral court ruled that Dallagnol could run and approved his registration. Justice Floriano later ordered the registration rejected, but TSE President Kassio Nunes Marques overturned that ruling the next day, allowing Dallagnol to appear on the ballot.
CNN Brasil political analyst Matheus Teixeira described the postponement as giving the candidate more time, while stressing that it does not resolve the seat dispute. He also suggested the post-election political balance could affect the case’s trajectory. That was the analyst’s assessment, not a reason announced by the court.