The plenary of the (Superior Electoral Court) will decide on Tuesday night (9) whether to maintain the Atlas/Bloomberg survey of voting intentions for the senator (-RJ) after the “” case.
The decision was issued by the president of the court, minister, at the request of Flávio’s defense. This Tuesday’s trial is considered a barometer of how the new composition of the electoral court will deal with controversial cases in the 2026 election.
The survey released on May 19 showed a drop of six percentage points in the senator’s voting intentions, who would lose to the president (PT) in a possible second round. 5,033 people were interviewed using a random digital recruitment method.
Kassio stated that the questionnaire was “structured in such a way as to seriously induce a negative perception” about Flávio, after dialogues between the former president’s son and the former banker, owner of .
The last item of the survey, which had 48 questions, was the audio in which Flávio asked Vorcaro for money to finance the film “Dark Horse”, which tells the story of his father. The media was accompanied by illustrative images of the senator and Vorcaro.
Respondents could swipe to the right when they were “evaluating the content more positively” and to the left when they were “evaluating the content more negatively.” Flávio’s defense argued that there was “contamination and induction” of the responses.
In a statement, AtlasIntel defended the scientific rigor of the research and said that the collection of voting intentions took place without the audio being played during the questionnaire. According to the company, the material was only presented to users at a later stage — and without it being possible to return to the questions or change the answers already recorded.
In addition to Kassio, who must repeat the arguments for suspending the research, the ministers Dias Toffoli, Floriano Azevedo Marques, Estela Aranha, Antonio Carlos Ferreira and Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva are voting this Tuesday. The session starts at 7pm.
