Ministry of Justice states that there were no problems with public security in the first round of elections

The general coordinator of integrated operations at the Ministry of Justice, Colonel Ronimar Jobim, stated in the early evening of this Sunday (4), after voting ended, that there were no problems with public security during the first round and there were no roadblocks that would hinder the movement of voters.

"We had no complications, there were no blockages or total interruptions," he said.

The only two partial stoppages recorded this Sunday on federal highways, supervised by the Federal Highway Police (PRF), occurred because of an accident with deaths, in Ceará, and the fall of a tree, Jobim said.

According to the colonel, there were five cases of flagrant electoral crimes: three on suspicion of corruption and vote buying and two on suspicion of irregular transportation of voters.

In these cases, two buses were stopped and taken to the Federal Police for further investigation: one in Roraima, with 49 voters, and the other in Amazonas, with 26. The suspicion is that the buses were taking voters to vote for a specific candidate.

Comparison with 2022

"Since 2023, the PRF has changed its focus so that free mobility, the circulation of vehicles, is the main point", said the operations coordinator of the Federal Highway Police, Nádia Zilotti.

She was questioned by journalists about the changes made by the PRF compared to 2022, when a series of blitzes made it difficult for voters to travel, especially in electoral strongholds of then-candidate Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Nádia stated that, this year, one of the cases that most caught the attention of highway police officers was the seizure, on Saturday (3), of almost R$1 million in the municipality of Rio Largo, in Alagoas.

The police found R$79,200 in cash and checks worth R$866,000 on the suspect, the largest amount seized by the PRF. The Federal Police will investigate what the destination of this money would be. The suspect was arrested.