O plenary of the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) must judge this Tuesday (9), in a session scheduled for 7pm, whether a preliminary decision by Minister Nunes Marques is maintained or overturned who sent which had shown a drop in voting intentions for senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ)pre-candidate for President.
O survey was carried out and published in May, , former president Jair Bolsonaro, to former banker Daniel Vorcaro, owner of the extinct Banco Master and investigated for billion-dollar financial fraud.
Through the decision, the company responsible for electoral research, AtlasIntel, must remove the survey from its communication channels and stop any dissemination of the research.
The decision by Nunes Marques, who is president of the TSE, is preliminary, that is, it is provisional in nature and must be endorsed or not by the plenarywhich is composed, in addition to him, of six more ministers. They are: André Mendonça, Dias Toffoli, Antonio Carlos Ferreira, Ricardo Villas Bôas Cueva, Floriano Azevedo Marques Neto and Estela Aranha.
In the decision, Marques agreed with the arguments presented by the PL, which claimed that there had been a negative direction against Flávio. The party pointed out that, of 49 questions that made up the survey questionnaire, eight were related to the Master and improperly linked the pre-candidate to the financial scandal.
The acronym also argued that the questions, in addition to being biased, were made in sequence, influencing the interviewee’s understanding. Furthermore, the party claimed that the audio that the basis for the questions has not yet been authenticated by the Courtwhich is why it could not have supported the survey.
The minister wrote that the party’s arguments are plausible and go beyond “mere disagreement regarding the represented party’s methodological choices, but involve an objective allegation of possible use of the questionnaire as a mechanism for inducing the interviewee”.
AtlasIntel
In a note released after the injunction, the AtlasIntel Institute defended the research and said that “the situation will be duly clarified based on the technical analysis of the facts and the methodology used and we trust the TSE board to affirm the technical robustness and legality of the study”.
