Lula's inauguration was the most searched political topic on Google in 2023

The platform Google Trends released the research that “marked” 2023, according to the number of searches carried out on Google. In Brazil, in the politics category, the inauguration of the president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) came in 1st place. Followed by the names of former Minister of Justice Anderson Torres and STF Minister Alexandre de Moraes.

The top 5 is completed by searches for the name of First Lady Janja and the term “tax reform”.

Despite the big tech does not disclose the exact number of searches for each term, to create the list the company considers the search terms that had the greatest increase compared to the previous one.

Read the top polls related to politics in 2023:

In addition to ranking of most searched terms, Google also shows interest in these terms throughout the year. This way, it is possible to know when each term was most popular. In the survey, the big tech categorizes search terms in a range from 0 to 100. The higher the number, the greater the number of searches in the period.

Read what intensified searches for the main searches related to politics:

• Lula’s inauguration – The peak of searches occurred during the 1st week of January, with the main searches being related to the time of the event. On the 1st date of the month, the PT member and the vice-president Geraldo Alckmin (PSB) took over the Executive Branch of Brazil. Remember what the inauguration was like.
• Anderson Torres – the peak of searches for his name occurred from January 8th to 14th. The main searches for the former Minister of Justice of the Bolsonaro government and the former Secretary of Public Security of Brasília were about his connection with the former president, explanations of who Torres was and his arrest, respectively. The former minister was arrested on January 14th on suspicion of failure to act in the extremist acts of January 8th.
• Alexandre de Moraes – The search for the STF minister on Google had 2 relevant peaks: January 8th to 14th and July 16th to 22nd. In general, the main related searches had the name of Bolsonaro and Lula, respectively. The facts highlighted by the research were: the extremist acts of January 8th and the harassment suffered by Moraes at Rome's international airport on July 14th.
• Janja – the first lady, Rosângela Lula da Silva, had her peak number of searches on the platform during the 1st week of January. The biggest related searches were about Lula, her age and former president Jair Bolsonaro.
• Tax reform – the PEC (Proposed Amendment to the Constitution) of the tax reform was highly sought after in the search engine big tech during the week of its first approval in the Chamber of Deputies, on July 6th. The main search was to explain what the PEC was about.
• Federal intervention – During the week of extremist acts on January 8th, searches for federal intervention reached their peak. President Lula ordered federal intervention in public security in the Brazilian capital after protesters against the result of the 2022 election invaded and vandalized the buildings of the Três Poderes, in Brasília.
• Deltan Dallagnol – the peak of searches for the former congressman's name on Google occurred in the week of May 14th to 20th, when the TSE (Superior Electoral Court) unanimously decided to revoke the mandate of Deltan Dallagnol (Podemos-PR). The Court considered that the former Lava Jato prosecutor resigned from the MP-PR (Public Ministry of Paraná) to avoid an administrative punishment, which could make him ineligible.
• Marcos do Val – the name of Congressman by Podemos do Espírito Santo had its peak in searches in the week of January 29th to February 4th, in which he stated that former president Jair Bolsonaro had attempted the “coerce” to participate in a coup d'état after the defeat in the 2022 elections. The name of the former chief executive appeared as the main one in searches related to Val's on Google.
• 100 year secrecy – The search for 100-year-old secrecy imposed by the Bolsonaro government reached its peak in the week of January 8th to 14th. During the period, the GSI (Institutional Security Office) released the list of visits received by former first lady Michelle Bolsonaro at the Palácio da Alvorada, which was under secrecy, after Lula asked the CGU (Comptroller General of the Union) to reevaluate the imposition of secrecy on public administration information by the previous administration.
• Bolsonaro ineligible – Searches for the term reached their peak in the week of June 25th to July 1st, when the TSE determined the former president's ineligibility for 8 years for abuse of political power and misuse of the media. The main research was on the reason for Bolsonaro's ineligibility.

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The platform also publicized the general events that “marked” the country. In that rankingresearch linked to politics, such as Lula's inauguration and tax reform, came in 6th and 9th place, respectively.