About this archive

What it contains

• Casos (cases): 38 court and administrative proceedings involving Chega officials, each shown at its exact procedural stage. 26 count towards the total; dismissals, acquittals, facts that predate the person joining Chega, and debt-enforcement cases stay visible but are not counted.
• Decisões (decisions): 45 decisions by the Constitutional Court, the Political Accounts Authority (Entidade das Contas), the National Elections Commission (CNE), the media regulator (ERC) and Parliament’s Transparency Committee. Not all are sanctions: some are audit reports or the opening of proceedings.
• Sinais (signals): 128 things party leaders said, proposed or did against the Constitution, the press, the courts, opponents, minorities or democratic memory, and documented links to the far right. A signal is not a crime.
• Dinheiro (money): what the official accounts show about the party’s and its campaigns’ income, spending and donations.
• Pessoas (people): 40 pages with each person’s offices and everything in the archive about them.

Method

• A fact is only published with a primary source (court ruling, prosecutor’s statement, official record, parliamentary record, official biography) or with two independent reference news outlets. Several stories from the same news agency count as one source.
• Every case is shown at its exact stage. Being a formal suspect is not being charged; being charged is not being convicted. Everyone is presumed innocent until a final conviction.
• No adjectives or value judgements in factual text. Quotations are verbatim, checked against the source.
• Victims, and minors in any case, are never identifiable. Sexual crimes and crimes against minors only appear once there is a formal charge.
• Dismissals and acquittals are always shown. Corrections are made publicly and logged from 18 November 2026.

The full rules (in Portuguese) are on the Método page.

Reading a case: the stage labels

Inquérito

Investigation: the Public Prosecutor’s Office is investigating. No one has been charged.

Arguido

Formal suspect in a criminal investigation. Not a charge.

Imunidade levantada

Parliament (or a regional assembly) lifted a member’s immunity so that they can be questioned as a formal suspect. Not a charge.

Acusado

Charged (indicted) by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Instrução

Pre-trial phase: a judge decides whether the charges go to trial.

Em julgamento

On trial.

Condenado · não definitiva

Convicted at first instance or on appeal; the conviction can still be appealed.

Condenado · definitiva

Final conviction: no further appeal is possible.

Arquivado · Não pronunciado · Absolvido

Closed without charges, not sent to trial, or acquitted. These cases stay visible but are not counted in the total.

Cível · Coima · Perda de mandato

Civil case, administrative fine, or action to remove an elected official from office. None of these is a criminal conviction.

How to cite

Please cite the original source, which is linked on every entry, and, if you use the archive, credit «Já Chega! (jachega.org)» with the address of the entry. Every entry shows the date it was last checked. Each entry can also be printed or saved as a PDF, with all source addresses written out.

Open data

The data behind the site is available as JSON and CSV on the Dados abertos section, and copies of the official documents cited are on the Documentos page.

Who we are and contact

The archive is made by a collective of citizens with no links to any party. It has no advertising or sponsors and does not collect data about its visitors: no forms, no cookies. Contact: [email protected] (we answer in Portuguese or English).