Mayor talks about regulating withdrawals and fining companies up to 200 times the value for which they were hired
The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Arthur Lira (PP-AL), defended the installation of a CPI (Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry) to investigate companies that poll the intention to vote in Congress after the elections. He gave an interview to the portal UOL this Tuesday (11.Oct.2022).
On Monday (Oct 10), the vote on the bill that criminalizes electoral research companies that have results different from those of electronic voting machines was scheduled. But with the plenary empty, the vote was not held.
“If the CPI has signatures, and a determined fact, it can be installed as I think it should also be installed in the Senate. After the elections. But we cannot avoid resolving this issue, because it has been bothering all voters year after year, election after election.”said Lira.
The president of the Chamber said that he will still talk this Tuesday (11.out) with the leaders of the House on projects to regulate electoral polls. Lira says that Congress does not want to criminalize the practice, but to regulate it.
“If the polls have lost the ability to capture the voter’s desire, the methodology has to be modified. The way of doing it has to be unified, this is a way of regulating, for example”it says.
Lira also spoke of fining research companies up to 200 times the amount for which they were hired, in case of discrepancy in the results of the polls. According to him, it is difficult to objectively penalize research companies, since there is no way to prove where exactly the responsibility for the error comes from.
“If I’m going to blame the owner of the company, he’ll say it’s the statistician’s fault. I go to the statistician and he says it’s the interviewer’s fault. The interviewer will say that it is the fault of the voter who lied. We want to regulate. You will have to indemnify 100 times, 200 times the value of the contract, you will have to standardize methodology”he added.
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the deputy Ricardo Barros (PP-PR) is the author of the bill 2,567 2022 that proposes the punishment of polling companies that present results outside the declared margin of error in the last 15 days before the elections. The proposal establishes a fine and imprisonment from 4 to 10 years for those responsible for the companies. ANDis a intact of the agenda (287 KB).
Voting intention surveys started to be questioned after the result of the 1st round, which showed a smaller advantage of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (EN) about Jair Bolsonaro (PL). The polls gave up to 14 percentage points of distance between the 2. At the polls, the PT had 48.43% of valid votes, and the president, 43.20%.
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