The Court of Justice of Mato Grosso (TJMT) annulled the vote of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso (ALMT) that maintained the veto of former governor Mauro Mendes on the project that provided for a linear adjustment of 6.8% for employees of the state Judiciary. The Court ordered the deputies to immediately hold a new vote, this time in an open and public manner.
Court annuls vote that barred 6.8% adjustment to Judiciary employees and deputies will have to vote without secrecy
The Court of Justice of Mato Grosso (TJMT) annulled the vote of the Legislative Assembly of Mato Grosso (ALMT) that maintained the veto of former governor Mauro Mendes on the project that provided for a linear adjustment of 6.8% for...
The decision was taken unanimously by the Panel of Civil Chambers of Public and Collective Law, which accepted a writ of mandamus from the Union of Employees of the Judiciary of the State of Mato Grosso (Sinjusmat). The trial took place on August 6 and the ruling was signed today (13) by the rapporteur, judge Márcio Vidal.
- The sentence does not automatically grant adjustments to servers.
- 1,398/2025, forwarded by the Court of Justice to the Legislative Assembly.
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The decision was taken unanimously by the Panel of Civil Chambers of Public and Collective Law, which accepted a writ of mandamus from the Union of Employees of the Judiciary of the State of Mato Grosso (Sinjusmat). The trial took place on August 6 and the ruling was signed today (13) by the rapporteur, judge Márcio Vidal. The sentence does not automatically grant adjustments to servers.
The process involves Bill No. 1,398/2025, forwarded by the Court of Justice to the Legislative Assembly. The proposal provided for a 6.8% increase for all classes and levels, in addition to changes to the Career Development and Remuneration System (SDCR).
The proposal was approved by state deputies on November 19, 2025, but received a full veto from the governor on December 1. Two days later, on December 3, the Assembly analyzed the veto in a secret vote. The result was 12 votes for maintaining the veto and 10 for overturning it, preventing the adjustment from progressing.
Sinjusmat appealed to the Judiciary arguing that secret voting contradicted the Federal Constitution. The union argued that Constitutional Amendment No. 76/2013 removed from the Federal Constitution the provision for secret voting to analyze vetoes and that, therefore, Mato Grosso should also adopt open voting.
During the process, the discussion reached the Special Body of the TJMT, which declared the expression “in secret ballot”, provided for in paragraph 5 of article 42 of the Constitution of Mato Grosso, unconstitutional.
The understanding was that the state rule had become incompatible with the Federal Constitution and with the principles of publicity, transparency and popular sovereignty.
For the rapporteur, judge Márcio Vidal, it would not be possible to consider the rule that authorized secret voting unconstitutional and, at the same time, preserve a vote carried out precisely based on it.
According to the judge, advertising is not a secondary formality in this type of vote. Open voting allows the population to know how each parliamentarian has positioned themselves and to cover their representatives politically.
In the collegiate's assessment, secrecy prevents this public control and violates the constitutional principles of publicity, transparency and popular sovereignty.