THE President Lula (PT) is rejected by 44% of voters, and the Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), by 38%, research shows Datafoliha. The parliamentarian announced yesterday that he had been appointed by Jair Bolsonaro (PL) to run for president.
The former president, who is serving time in Brasilia over a conviction for leading a coup plot and is ineligible for election, has a disapproval rating similar to Lula’s, at 45 percent.
The PT leader leads voting intentions in all scenarios tested, with 15 points ahead in the scenario in which he competes with Flávio.
Datafolha surveyed 2,002 people aged 16 or over, in 113 municipalities, from Tuesday (2) to Thursday (4). The margin of error for general survey data is 2 percentage points, give or take.
Right-wing governors considered for conflict have lower rejection rates than the Bolsonaro family.
20% say they would not vote for the governor of São Paulo, Tarcísio de Freitas (Republicans), Centrão favorite for the Planalto race. He has not yet publicly commented on Flávio’s announcement.
The governors of Paraná, Ratinho Júnior (PSD), and of Minas Gerais, Romeu Zema (Novo), have a rejection rate of 21%, and that of Goiás, Ronaldo Caiado (União Brasil), of 18%.
After Flávio’s nomination, Caiado said he remained a pre-candidate, but said Jair Bolsonaro “has the right to seek to make the senator’s candidacy viable.”
Zema has already said that the parliamentarian’s pre-candidacy was logical. “When I announced my precandidacy for the Bolsonaro presidency, it was clear: several candidacies in the first round help to join forces in the second. It is therefore completely logical that Flávio presents his name for the presidency. It is fair and democratic,” he said on social networks.
In the former president’s family, federal deputy Eduardo Bolsonaro (PL-SP) and former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro have rejection rates similar to those of Flávio, 37% and 35%, respectively.
The figures indicate that, although they are the natural heirs of the Bolsonarista vote, members of the former president’s family also inherit disapproval of the politician.
Eduardo is accused in court due to his activities abroad, described in the PGR (Attorney General’s Office) complaint as a constraint to the Supreme Court.
Currently president of PL Mulher, Michelle is suggested by the acronym to run for the Senate of the Federal District in the 2026 elections.
She measured strength with her stepchildren by publicly exposing differences in interpretation on who the party should support in the upcoming elections, leading the party to suspend its support for former minister Ciro Gomes (PSDB) for the Ceará government.