Deputy mocked the number of people in the demonstration this Sunday (16.mar); 26,000 went to the event in Copacabana
The federal deputy (Avante-MG) On Sunday (16.Mar.2025) the number of people who went to the demonstration in Copacabana, Rio, called by the former president (PL).
Through your perfil no X (ex-Twitter), o cOgressist the act that called for amnesty to those arrested for the acts of January 8, 2023 “MINIFESTATION” and wrote: “Amnesty is the fuck”.
Bolsonaro brings together 26,000 people
The act called Bolsonaro for this Sunday (16.mar) gathered about 26,000 People at the time of peak-when the former chief executive spoke to his supporters (11:30 am to 12:30 pm).
To make the calculation, the Poder360 He used high -resolution aerial photos made with drone at the time of higher concentration at the scene of the act, precisely during Bolsonaro’s speech. The former president spoke for approximately 40 minutes from 11:30 to 12:30. With the photos available, the terrain busy was squad so that it was possible to know how many square meters there was audience – and the Poder360 marked the places according to the concentration: 1, 2, 3, 4 or even 6 protesters per square meter. Then he added the number of people in each square meter and reached the total number – which will always be approximate, because in concentrations of this nature people move.
USP estimated
The monitor of the political debate in the digital environment, USP (University of São Paulo), estimated that the act called by Bolsonaro had an audience of approximately 18,300 people. The margin of error is 2,200 people, more or less. The calculation is done with the help of Chinese software called Point to Point Network. Understand of Poder360 How the program works. In April 2024, the researchers estimated that the act had gathered about 32,700 protesters.
Read the survey of researchers (PDF – 15 MB).
Bolsonaro’s smallest audience
The size of the public was significantly below Bolsonaro’s expectations. On March 10, he in giving a “Message to Brazil and the World” And said waiting “1 million people”. Days later, it reduced the number: “We hope to put at least 500,000 people there”.
This was Bolsonaro’s 4th act after leaving the presidency. Of the acts called since 2021 by the former president in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo-prince stages of major demonstrations in the country-today recorded the least adherence:
- 25.fev.2024 – from Av. Paulista, in São Paulo;
- 21.abr.2024 – from Copacabana, in Rio;
- 7.set.2024 – About people on av. Paulista, in São Paulo;
- 7.set.2022 – About people in Copacabana, Rio;
- 7.set.2021 – There is no public data.
