Former President Jair Bolsonaro (PL) gathered approximately 44,800 supporters on Paulista Avenue, in São Paulo, on Sunday (6), to ask for political forgiveness for those convicted of the invasion of the three powers, January 8, 2023.
It is appreciated by the supervisor of the public debate from the digital media, the University of São Paulo (USP), which examined from aerial photos of the moment of demonstration, during the speech from Bolsonaro, which began about 15:44 and lasted for 25 minutes.
Manifestation history
In February last year, when Bolsonaro also went to Paulista to ask for amnesty for the prisoners on January 8, the former president gathered about 185,000 protesters, according to the same USP account. Already the Secretariat for General Security (SSP) estimated 600 thousand people present. This year, both the Secretariat and the Military Police reported that there will be no public estimate.
In September last year, where he asked for impeachment by Minister Alexandre de Moraes, the Supreme Court (STF), Bolsonaro put about 45,000 people – just a quarter of the previous demonstration of February.
See public development in Bolsonaristic acts:
- February 2024, in São Paulo – 185 thousand
- September 2024, in São Paulo – 45 thousand
- March 2025 – In Rio de Janeiro – 18 300
- April 2025, in São Paulo – 44.8 thousand
After the team was emptied last month in Copacabana, Rio, where the same research group estimated an audience of 18,300 people, the pockets avoid talking about expectations from protesters in Sao Paulo. At that time, Bolsonaro and the organizers were waiting for one million people on the law, who had less than 2% of it. In 2022, when he was still president and fought for re -election, he gathered 64,600 people in Rio on September 7.
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House support
However, the number of audiences is crucial to measuring the popular support that the Amnesty project for condemned fraudsters can raise to proceed in the House of Representatives. According to Estadão Amnesty pointsMore than a third of the 513 parliamentarians in the Chamber support forgiveness.
According to the USP report, a software -analyzed images analyzed with drones, identification and marking of people’s heads, which automates the bill. “Photos were taken at three different schedules (14:05, 14:42 and 15:44), a total of 47 images. The nine selected photos were taken at 15:44, top torque for the demonstration. The picture covered the full length of the demonstration in three different concentration points on Paulista Avenue,” says the report.
Hairdresser
The law was characterized by references to the hairdresser Débora Rodrigue’s dos Santos, which chipped “Lost, Mané” in the statue that symbolizes justice, in front of STF, with lipstick. Moraes proposed a sentence of 14 years in prison for her, which went to house arrest and responds to the process in freedom since last month.
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Bolsonaro, who two weeks ago became respondent for attempted coup d’état in 2022, would also take advantage of political forgiveness, but puts the defense of the “old Bible in hand” and “humble people” captured by the invasion.
However, the appeal has no effect on most Brazilians. According to the Geni/Quaest survey released on Sunday, 56% of respondents said that they preferred that those involved in January 8 remain arrested, against 34% defending their release.
Majority is also Brazilian who believes that the highest decision to make Bolsonaro defendants for the cuisine plot: 52% of the respondents said they agreed to the STF Act, while 36% think the decision was unfair.
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During the demonstration, with Sertaneja’s parodies and the “punchy” style, the maximum was repeated that “there was no kind” by the politicians who spoke. According to Quaest, only 1% of respondents responded to the survey by denying the presence of an attempt to coup.