With little more than four months to go before the presidential elections in Brazil, a lot of information is emerging about the candidates. A supposed survey, which circulates on social networks, indicates that 93% of respondents they want Lula da Silva, the former Brazilian president who has already announced his candidacy, to be arrested again this year.
In the publication you can read, along with a photograph of the former president: “Lula shoots up in the polls! 93% want to be arrested again this year.”
However, there is no survey that indicates that nine out of 10 respondents said they would like to see Lula da Silva behind bars again, after being in prison for more than 500 days.
In fact, there is a survey carried out in March of last year by the Atlas Politico polling institute, which, among many questions addressed to those surveyed, concluded that 50.1% said they were in favor of Lula da Silva’s arrest – a number , nevertheless, , very different of what is being disclosed in a social media post.
Going back further in time, a survey conducted in February 2018 by the Datafolha Institute, even before the former president was actually arrested, and reported by the Brazilian press, reported that 53% of Brazilians wanted Lula da Silva to go to the jail. , compared to 44% who supported his freedom. Months later, in June 2019, when the former Brazilian president was already detained, a study by the Paraná Institute indicated that 58% of those surveyed defended that Lula should remain in prison.
In fact, after his release in December 2019, 54% of respondents in a Datafolha survey argued that the judge’s order to release the former president, by decision of the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court, had been fair.
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There are various surveys and various percentages that can be easily found on Internet search engines and that have been reported by the Brazilian press. Nevertheless, it’s not possible find any study indicating that 93% of those surveyed in Brazil wanted Lula da Silva to return to prison.
Lula da Silva has already announced his candidacy for the Presidency of the Republic, in the elections scheduled for October 2. In her speech, at an event held by the Workers’ Party, Lula stressed that she was running for “an act of love.” The politician Guides currently all the polls, with more than 40% of intention to vote, above the approximately 30% of the current president, Jair Bolsonaro, who is expected to run for re-election.
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It is also a turning point in the political life of the former president, who spent 580 days in prison, after his conviction for corruption, in 2017, for his involvement in Operation Lava Jato. Lula da Silva was released later in 2019 after the Federal Supreme Court ruled that the former president had been tried by a suspicious and biased judge.
conclusion
It is not possible to find any survey regarding the arrest of Lula da Silva, in which 93% of those surveyed answered that they wanted the former Brazilian president to return to prison. The image circulates on social networks, but without any support factual It is, therefore, information fake.
Thus, according to the Observer classification, this content is:
WRONG
In the classification system Facebookthis content is:
FAKE: The main content claims are factually inaccurate. This option typically matches “false” or “mostly false” ratings on fact-checking websites.
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Source: Observadora
