Luís Filipe Vieira slams Benfica polls, brings up... Frederico Varandas | OneFootball

Luís Filipe Vieira leveled several criticisms at the Benfica election poll, whose data was collected by Intercampus. The former president of the club appears several percentage points behind the frontrunners, but seemed to call the results into question by denouncing several dubious practices regarding the process used.

"We do not comment on polls. We are not commenting on today’s poll, just as we did not comment on yesterday’s (...) But we cannot remain indifferent to the hundreds of eyewitness accounts, videos, and photos we received about what happened during Intercampus’s data collection last Friday at Estádio da Luz," reads the initial message from Luís Filipe Vieira’s campaign.

The page of the former Benfica president continued: "Fans who are not members responding to surveys as if they were members; Fans or members responding more than once to the same survey; Fans or members close to certain candidacies responding in an organized and massive way; Coercion of fans and members who answered the surveys but were not aligned with those candidacies."

"The surveys conducted near stadiums consistently fail, as happened in 2020 with the first Intercampus poll for the election of the President of Sport Lisboa e Benfica, in which Luís Filipe Vieira was given almost 30 percentage points less than what was actually verified in the real vote count. The same Intercampus which, contrary to what was reported today, put João Benedito ahead of Frederico Varandas in its 2018 poll, even though the latter ultimately became president of Sporting Clube de Portugal," he continued, recalling the case that occurred with the Lisbon rival.

Luís Filipe Vieira concluded: "In addition to the reported problems, which completely distort the poll, the surveys at the stadium gates consistently fail because: a) They overvalue people who live near the stadium; b) They can be influenced by candidates who organize to respond; c) The disposition of fans or members changes depending on the outcome of the match, which can generate opposite results within the space of two hours. In light of all this, we cannot remain silent in the face of the outrage of tens of thousands of members who feel betrayed by this poor service to Benfica. Viva o Benfica."

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