32% support Brazilian Spring protests outside barracks calling for military intervention, according to PoderData

A PoderData poll conducted from Dec. 11 to 13 shows that 32% support Brazilian Spring protests in front of barracks, while more than half of voters (57%) are against the acts.

Another 11% could not answer.

When asking the question, the poll specified that the demonstrations call for military intervention in Brazil.

Here is the exact wording used by PoderData: “In general, are you in favor or against the demonstrations in front of the barracks calling for military intervention in Brazil?”.

The survey was conducted by PoderData, a company of the Poder360 Jornalismo group, with its own resources.

Data were collected from Dec. 11 to 13, 2022, through calls to cell phones and landlines. There were 2,500 interviews in 302 cities in the 27 states of the Federation. The margin of error is 2 percentage points. The confidence interval is 95%.

ACTS X VOTES IN THE 2ND ROUND

The survey cross-referenced the answers about support for the actions calling for “military intervention” with the vote declaration in the second round.

Among Jair Bolsonaro (PL, right) voters, 3 out of 4 favor the actions. Only 17% are against it, while 10% don’t know.

In Lula da Silva’s electorate, the scenario is the opposite.

91% are against the demonstrations – characterized by the president-elect’s allies as “antidemocratic. Only 1% are “in favor”, while 8% could not answer.

WHY IT MATTERS

Because the 32% rate is a significant percentage.

However, it would be wrong to say that ⅓ of the Brazilian electorate supports intervention by the Armed Forces along the lines of the coup of 1964.

The term “military intervention” is vague and can be redefined by the political leader of the day.

However, it is a fact that the acts in front of the barracks demonstrate massive doubts about the election results that put Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT, progressive-globalist) back in the Presidential Palace as of Jan. 1, 2023.

They represent contestation to what the polls showed.

The fact that this part of society supports the demonstrations shows that the still president of the Republic maintains a mobilized group of followers despite being practically silent after the elections.

Whoever has 32% of the votes in a presidential election is already in the second round.

DEMOGRAPHIC HIGHLIGHTS

PoderData stratifies the answers to obtain variations by demographic group. Power360 highlights:

• In favor – men (41%); residents of the Midwest (49%) and North (39%); people who studied up to high school (38%), and those with family incomes of 2 to 5 minimum wages (37%) or more than 5 wages (38%) are the most in favor of the demonstrations
• Against – the most opposed segments are women (64%), people aged 45 to 60 (61%) or over 60 (63%), residents of the Southeast (63%) and Northeast (66%), and the portion of the population who have attended higher education (64%).

With information from Poder360

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