Four out of ten Brazilians Consider Supreme Court’s Performance Poor or Terrible
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The Supreme Court’s (STF) assessment is barely better than that of the National Congress. Datafolha’s first survey aimed at measuring the population’s perception of the Supreme Court shows this.
According to the survey, the STF’s performance is poorly assessed by 39 percent of a total of 2,948 people interviewed between December 5th and 6th in 176 municipalities in all regions of the country.
This means that four out of ten Brazilians consider the Court’s performance poor or terrible. The error margin is two percentage points higher or lower.
The STF’s disapproval is barely better than that of Congress, which gets a poor or terrible rating from 45 percent of respondents. The STF’s disapproval is equivalent to that of President Jair Bolsonaro, whose management is poorly rated by 36 percent of the population, considering the survey’s error margin.
Datafolha draws attention to the fact that the rate of those who disapprove of the Brazilian Supreme Court is double that of those who approve it. Respondents who rated the STF’s performance as optimal or good accounted for 19 percent of Datafolha interviewees.
“Given the unprecedented nature of the survey, it is not possible to say whether the STF’s disapproval has increased or decreased over a certain period, but it is possible to compare it to the Executive and Legislative,” says Datafolha.
According to the Institute’s research director, Alessandro Janoni, the three federal branches of power have taken turns in the Brazilian political scene in recent years, with intense disclosure by mainstream media and social media.
And the Supreme Court’s plenary, comprised of its 11 justices, Datafolha says, has been in the spotlight on several occasions throughout 2019.
The main event was when it judged the actions that discussed the constitutionality of the imprisonment of convicts in the second instance.
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