()’s arrest was considered fair by 54% of Brazilian voters, according to a survey by , while 40% think the opposite. For 34%, the former president should serve his sentence at home.
The execution of the sentence to 27 months and three months in jail, determined by the Federal Supreme Court for his central role in the coup plot that aimed to keep him in power after the defeat to (PT) in the 2022 presidential election, began
Three days earlier, the minister of Alexandre de Moraes, rapporteur of the case and judge executing the sentence, had ordered Bolsonaro to be arrested after the former president electronicd with a soldering iron.
since August 4, after having violated precautionary measures determined by Moraes in the final stretch of his trial. On September 11, he was convicted alongside seven other defendants from the so-called central core of the plot.
Datafolha interviewed 2,002 people aged 16 or over from Tuesday (2) to Thursday (4) in 113 cities across the country. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus two percentage points.
6% of respondents were unable to assess whether the arrest was fair or not.
36% said they were aware of Bolsonaro’s definitive conviction and were well informed. A similar percentage, 37%, said they had knowledge and were more or less informed; 11% said they were poorly informed, and 16% said they were not aware.
Regarding the issue of location, which generates pressure from the former president’s allies and his defense, those interviewed who did not point to house arrest as the best option were divided between a common prison (26%), a military unit (20%) or a Federal Police headquarters (13%). 7% were unable to answer.
Bolsonaro is imprisoned at the PF superintendence in Brasília, in a room with basic furniture and a bathroom. shortly after the so-called final and unappealable decision, the closure of the process, on the 25th.
As the defense wanted the former president to go home, citing the politician’s health problems, the minister argued that at the PF he will have day-to-day care from doctors.
The decision was strongly influenced by the episode of the attempt to break the anklet and those convicted by the courts or who are being prosecuted.
The former head of Abin Alexandre Ramagem, and the son of former president Eduardo, deputy for PL-SP who is the target of investigation accused of coercing the STF with his campaign against Brazil together with the American government, went to the United States.
The biggest fear of Bolsonaro’s supporters, however, was that he would be sent to the Papuda prison complex, near Brasília. Former Minister of Justice Anderson Torres was arrested there.
The convicted general officers, former ministers Augusto Heleno (Institutional Security Office) and (Defense), as well as former Navy commander Almir Garnier, went to military units. The whistleblower Mauro Cid, ordered by Bolsonaro, is serving an open sentence.
Their arrest is a milestone in military executions or failures, and has put tension on the Armed Forces, especially the Army, the most important of them.
Asked about their opinion on seeing the Force generals condemned, 57% of voters considered the measure fair, and 30% unfair. 13% were unable to answer.
The image of the Army, which in the popular imagination is confused with the military establishment as a whole, suffered damage: 26% said they had a worse view of the Force as a result of the episode, compared to 57% who did not change their opinion. 12% had a better impression. in the sector, the result should bring relief to the barracks.
According to experts’ estimates, the former president will be entitled to sentence progression. He has already been without political rights until 2030 since 2023, when he was convicted by the Electoral Court for his campaign against the country’s electronic voting system. With the new penalties applied to him, he is
As would be predictable at this time, the beginning of serving the sentence is seen differently depending on the political taste of the interviewee.
Groups associated with Bolsonarism tend to consider the prison to be unfair. This occurs among evangelicals (55%), residents of the North/Mid-West (48%), PL supporters (95%) and voters of the former president in the 2022 second round (81%).
On the other hand, among those who are usually Lulistas, more think that the STF’s measure was fair (65%), PT supporters (92%) and those who voted for the current president in the last election (87%). Among those who canceled or left their vote blank, 57% approved of the arrest, compared to 23% who disapproved.
In the large socioeconomic strata measured by Datafolha, however, there is considerable homogeneity. Only young people, those with only primary education and those with the lowest income think a little more that the prison was fair, 60%, 59% and 58%, respectively, but these are groups with margins of error higher than the average — therefore, a similar scenario arises.
