Presentations before the Attorney General’s Office and the Superior Electoral Court (TSE) request that it be investigated whether the demographic companies committed “irregularities” or are directly responsible for “crimes“by the numbers released in the polls on the Saturday before the vote.
One of the agencies named in the request is Datafolhawhich projected a victory of Lula da Silva by 50% against 36% for Bolsonaro, while the final result was 48% for the former leftist president and 43% for the ultra-conservative president.
The proxies of the Bolsonaro campaign, of the Liberal PartyThey also made a presentation to the Ministry of Justicewhose owner is Anderson Torres.
The minister announced yesterday afternoon that he asked the Federal Police (PF) the opening of an investigation into “conduct that hypothetically can be characterized as crimes perpetrated by the institutes” of public opinion.
Faced with the accusations of the ruling party, Datafolha assured “that there is no legal basis for the request for investigations, this is a attempted intimidationDatafoha has a historic calling to report well and will continue to play that role.”
During the last weeks of the campaign before Sunday’s elections, Jair Bolsonaro shifted his attacks on the TSE to the pollsters precisely because of the voting intention polls. Datafolha was his favorite target, claiming that those figures were a lie and that it only mattered datavillage, referring to his followers.
“The opinion consultants will have to deal with this. It will affect the analysis of journalists and experts“, told AFP Leonardo Paz, consultant for Brazil of the analysis center International Crisis Group.
These discrepancies represent a “big problem for the institutes and for democracy itself,” agrees Gabiati. “The polls are an important part of the electoral process and it is bad for democracy that this actor is so questioned“, he maintains.
Source: Ambito
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