More than half of Brazilians are against the wide, general and unrestricted amnesty to those convicted of the attacks of January 8, 2023. According to Atlas/Bloomberg survey released on Thursday (14), 51.2% of respondents reject the measure, which would include both political and protesting leaders who participated in the invasion of the National Congress, the Planalto Palace and the Supreme Court (STF).
The amnesty portion of amnesty adds 46.9%, while 1.9% could not answer. Since March this year, rejection has risen 0.8 percentage point, while support fell 0.9 point.
Perception about the judiciary
The same survey reveals a transformation in the evaluation of the judiciary. Currently, 43.3% of respondents state that the court fulfills its role correctly, a jump of 22.4 percentage points compared to February 2024, when the index was 20.9%.
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Already the perception that Brazil lives a “dictatorship of the judiciary” fell from 47.3% to 45.4% in the period. The group that sees frequent abuse by magistrates fell from 16.7% to 11.2%, and the indecisive practically disappeared, from 15.2% to 0.1%.
The survey listened to 2,447 people between August 3 and 6, through random digital recruitment (Atlas RDR) and online questionnaires. The margin of error is two percentage points, more or less, with a confidence level of 95%.
