There is no scorched earth in Flávio's pre-campaign, says expert

The audio involving Flávio Bolsonaro (PL) and former banker Daniel Vorcaro caused damage to the senator's presidential pre-campaign, but did not derail it.

This is the assessment of Leonardo Barreto, partner at the Think Policy consultancy, in an interview with the WW program, on CNN Brasil.

Barreto stated that, when analyzing data from the Datafolha survey released on Friday (22), the impact of the episode was surprisingly limited. "There is no scorched earth. In fact, the impression one gets looking at this Datafolha is that it was even cheap", declared the analyst.

According to him, all the turmoil generated by the case - including the destabilization of Flávio Bolsonaro's campaign nucleus and the change of communications professional - led one to believe that the effect on the polls would be more severe. However, the numbers did not confirm this prognosis.

Technical tie remains
According to Barreto, within the margins of error, Flávio Bolsonaro and President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) remain technically tied.

"Flávio fluctuated two points down, Lula fluctuated two points up", explained the analyst.

This result generated, according to him, "a kind of anticlimax" for those who expected the survey to reveal a fatal dehydration of Flávio's candidacy, which would force the PL and its surroundings to look for alternatives to the senator's name.

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Source: CNN