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Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF) maintains decision allowing continuity of judicial sale of Eletrobras distributors

The Chief Justice of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (STF), Justice Carmen Lúcia, dismissed an injunction in which the Eletrobras Employees Association (AEEL) sought to suspend an act of the Federal Regional Court of the 2nd Region (TRF-2), which allowed the continuity of the judicial sale of Eletrobras' subsided electrical energy distributors. The decision of the Chief Justice, taken in the Complaint (RCL) 31198, occurred during her shift.

The Employees Association reports that the judgment of the 19th Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro granted an injunction in a public civil action to suspend the bidding process of Auction Public Notice 2/2018-PPI/PND, which has the purpose of granting the concession contract for the public service of distribution of electricity, associated to the transfer of control of the shares of Eletrobras' distributors. However, the president of TRF-2 suspended the enforcement of the decision of the first instance until final decision in the scope of the public civil action.

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