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Almost a third of Brazilians disapprove of Lula, poll shows

Published 04/01/2023, 02:14 PM
Updated 04/01/2023, 02:15 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Almost a third of Brazilians disapprove of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, putting the leftist leader at about the same level of unpopularity as his right-wing predecessor Jair Bolsonaro during the first three months of his presidency, a poll cited by the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo showed on Saturday.

Lula, who took office in January after narrowly defeating Bolsonaro in an election last October, has the approval of 38% of Brazilians, with 29% disapproving of his performance, according to a Datafolha survey.

Bolsonaro, who served as president from 2019 to the end of 2022, never formally conceded defeat to Lula. On Jan. 8, barely a week after Lula began his third term as president, Bolsonaro supporters stormed government buildings in the federal capital Brasilia to protest the election result.

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a ceremony at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia, Brazil March 21, 2023. REUTERS/Adriano Machado/File Photo

After about three months in self-imposed exile in the United States, Bolsonaro returned to Brazil this week.

Datafolha interviewed 2,028 people on Wednesday and Thursday in 126 cities. The margin of error for the poll is plus or minus two percentage points.

Latest comments

meaning two thirds approve of him, which is sky-high for a president. go lula!
What do you expect from this former president who was imprisoned and did time? Re-electing any former head of state never yields anything positive.
ignorant comment
so re-electing George Washington and Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't yield anything positive?
Biden is at like 65% disapproval rate
all this shoes is that there are more nuts in the US than in Brasil. whats the third world country now?
Time to call the KOMBI GUYS....
That's nothing, aren't we around 60%?
yeah 1/3. anyone who doesn't question stats like this a apes
Disappointing that only a third dissaprove of a typically corrupt leftist, especially with what’s happened to other nearby socialist utopias such as Venezuela and Cuba.
and you believe this? why? cause it's written?
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