The audience of the act called by the former president to support the amnesty project to those involved in the scammers’ attacks was 30,000 people, according to Datafolha survey.
The former president had spoken to take a million people to this Sunday (16) demonstration at Copacabana Beach, no. The state Military Police, governed by pocketist Claudio Castro (PL), announced on a social network that there were 400,000 people on the scene, but did not explain how it reached that number.
To estimate the public, Datafolha used aerial images obtained at 11:10 am, more than an hour after the scheduled time for the event, when the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), spoke. About half later, Bolsonaro spoke to protesters.
The former president acknowledged in his speech that the public of this Sunday’s act was less than that of the demonstration organized by pockets on September 7, 2022.
The protesters occupied on Sunday the clues of Avenida Atlântica on the stretch between the streets Constant Ramos and Xavier Silveira, on Copacabana beach.
Part of the audience advanced through the beach sand near the event’s sound car, parked at the intersection between Avenida Atlântica and Bolivar Street.
These spaces totaled 25,000 square meters and had three types of concentration: high density, average density and dispersion, according to the classification made by Datafolha according to the aerial images of the event.
From the calculation of densities that ranged from 1 to 4 people per square meter, the institute estimated that about 30,000 people were present in the demonstration – 3% of the Bolsonaro planned.
Also according to Datafolha, if the space occupied by the protesters were crowded at the maximum capacity, they would fit a maximum of 175,000 people. This number, however, considers a density of seven people per square meter, where any displacement in the space occupied is impossible, which was not the case with this Sunday’s act.
The monitor of CEBRAP’s political debate and the NGO More in Common estimated that the public of the act was 18,300 people, less than 2% of what the former president had mentioned.
The measurement was made at the time considered the peak of the event, at 12h, through photos taken by drones and artificial intelligence systems (AI).
The same survey cited the presence of 64,600 people in Copacabana in the Bolsonarist act of September 7, 2022.
The event took place in strong heat, and some people were sick and had to be removed to receive medical attention.
In his speech, the former president said he will not leave Brazil and will be a “arrested or dead” problem.
He also stated that he leaves other leaders on the right and asked that, “if any cowardice happens to me, they keep fighting.”
The former president criticized investigations into the 2022 coup plot, for which he was reported to the Supreme Court (STF).
“This story was not perfect for them because I was in the United States [no 8 de janeiro]. If I were here, I would be stuck to this day or who knows them killed. I will be a problem for them, arrested or dead, “he said.
He also suggested that his campaign in the 2022 dispute was harmed by actions by Alexandre de Moraes, president of the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) at the time. “I couldn’t put Lula’s image with dictators around the world. The other side could do everything. They called me misogynists, fascist, even Marielle Franco’s killer,” he said.
He added that the 2026 election “will be led with exemption” and that “elections without Bolsonaro is to deny democracy in Brazil.” In next year’s dispute, Minister Kassio Nunes Marques, nominated for the STF by Bolsonaro, will be the.
