Caroline de Toni faces internal dispute in the Santa Catarina PL after the arrival of Carlos Bolsonaro

First placed numerically in the polls, De Toni even had her name questioned in the dispute between her own party at the beginning of 2026, still in the pre-campaign season. With the arrival of Carlos Bolsonaro in SC, the party considered reserving seats for the former Rio councilor and Esperidião Amin, in an attempt to form a coalition with the PP.

In February, the federal deputy elected with the highest number of votes in the state in 2022 even said that she would leave the PL to run for another party for the vacancy, given the party's refusal. In this musical chairs, she received support from Michelle Bolsonaro, wife of Jair Bolsonaro and stepmother of Carlos.

However, Amin was publicly ignored by the liberals when Flávio Bolsonaro, PL's presidential candidate, used social media to confirm that the names for the race in Santa Catarina would be his brother's and Carol's.

Caroline Rodrigues de Toni is currently a federal deputy, being elected in 2022 as the most voted parliamentarian in Santa Catarina. She is a lawyer and one of the main names on the conservative right.

With a degree in law and a master's degree in public law, she began her political career in the west of the state, her electoral stronghold, as a candidate for councilor of Chapecó in 2016. Two years later, she ran for federal deputy, being elected to the National Congress for the first time.