The disapproval of the performance of the Ministers of the Federal Supreme Court rose eight percentage points, according to a survey of the, and reached 36%, exceeding the approval rate of 29%.
The numbers represent a worsening about it, when those who declared the STF’s work (28%) were bad or bad were at the same level as the total of those who classified it as good or great (29%).
The Datafolha survey was conducted on July 29 and 30-with a margin of maximum error of two percentage points for more or less-before decreeing, on Monday (5), the house arrest of (PL), but about ten days after the former president, such as the use of an anklet.
The Supreme Court has been at the center of political clashes that has placed it in the sights of Congress and Bolsonarism.
In the same survey, the institute questioned respondents about Bolsonaro restrictions at the time – most, 55%,.
Since Bolsonaro’s electoral defeat to Lula (PT) in October 2022, the Positive Evaluation of the Supreme Court remained close to 30% according to the four Datafolha polls conducted in the period.
The disapproval showed a volatility up or down in these research.
At the end of 2022, Bolsonaro’s transition period to Lula, it was 30%. A year later, and after the political and legal developments of the coup attacks to the headquarters of the three powers in Brasilia, the negative assessment rose at 38%.
Just over three months later, in March 2024, she went down at 28%, the second lowest level since Datafolha began to assess the evaluation of the 11 court ministers in 2019, amid investigations into the end of the 2022 coup plot.
There is a clear division of popular perception of the Supreme Court when there is political cut. The disapproval of ministers’ work is significantly higher among Bolsonaro PL supporters (81% against only 2% approval), the opposite of what occurs among petistas, where positive assessment far surpasses negative (56% to 9%).
One of the main flags of Bolsonarism is amnesty to the Supreme convicts of the Supreme due to the scammers of January 8, 2023, in addition to the return of Bolsonaro’s eligibility – which is now out of the electoral play due to two Electoral Justice decisions, as well as being in the sights of the STF due to the case of the coup plot.
Amnesty to the condemned January 8, it shows Datafolha: 55%, compared to 35% that defend it.
Datafolha has also measured the population’s perception of what influences the decisions of Brazilian justice as a whole, whether their own interests or the interests of the collectivity, and which layer of society, poor or rich, are better treated.
As in the case of congressmen, most interviewees see personal motivations prevailing about the interests of society, and see rich being more benefited than poor.
According to Datafolha, 68% of respondents said that the judiciary thinks more about their own interests, against 27% who say they see the demands of the priority population. The perception of better treated rich (71%) than poor (4%) is even higher.
