in may 2010, the state (regional) electoral court rendered garotinho and his wife rosinha ineligible to run for public office for three years from 2008 on, for engaging in electoral corruption during the 2008 mayoral elections in campos, where garotinho had canvassed for votes for his wife, who was running for mayor. such a condemnation by a collegiate court would have rendered garotinho ineligible for the ensuing 2010 national election, but the federal electoral court decided to grant him the right to run for the federal legislative on the partido da república ticket, pending an appeal.