- Title: Record low poll numbers plague Brazil's President
- Date: 28th July 2017
- Summary: RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL (JULY 28, 2017) (REUTERS) POLITICAL SCIENTIST, JORGE TADEU IN HIS OFFICE CLOSE UP OF TADEU'S HANDS TURNING THE PAGES OF A BOOK. (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BRAZILIAN POLITICAL SCIENTIST, JORGE TADEU SAYING: "Not only is the 70 percent disapproval number worrying, but the approval of 5 percent of the population is very low. It's the worst number of all the Presidents in the history of Brazil since 1986. [It's] a government that has very low legitimacy and needs to get through day-to-day affairs and try to get the country out of the crisis. So, having a level of disapproval of that order leaves the government always on the ropes." SAO PAULO, BRAZIL (JULY 28, 2017) (REUTERS) BUSY SAO PAULO STREET WITH BUILDINGS AND TRAFFIC WIDE STREET IN SAO PAULO WITH TRAFFIC AND PEOPLE CROSSING THE ROAD SIDEWALK ON BUSY STREET WITH MANY PEOPLE WALKING (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BRAZILIAN SECURITY GUARD, ANTONIO PEREIRA, SAYING: "These are situations that we got through with difficulty, and now you see an illegitimate government like his who wants to take away those rights. It's so illegitimate that he has only a 5% approval, so totally against him." BRAZILIAN FLAGS WITH BUILDINGS IN SAO PAULO IN BACKGROUND (SOUNDBITE) (Portuguese) BRAZILIAN ILLUSTRATOR MAURICIO BALERINE SAYING: "I think it's a reflection of what people are feeling about the government, nobody is happy with what's going on, with the lack of jobs, with all the problems that are happening. This is a reflection of the population waking up to what's happening."
- Embargoed: 11th August 2017 17:56
- Keywords: MICHEL TEMER BRAZIL POLL POLLING
- Location: SAO PAULO, BRASILIA AND RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
- City: SAO PAULO, BRASILIA AND RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL
- Country: Brazil
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0036RMUVCZ
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Brazilian President Michel Temer's approval rating has fallen to just 5 percent and 87 percent of those asked say they do not trust the corruption-plagued leader, according to a survey released on Thursday (July 27) by pollster Ibope. The result comes just days before Congress votes on whether a charge that Temer took bribes from the world's largest meatpacker, JBS SA, should proceed to the Supreme Court, where he could be put on trial.
The government's approval rating was 10 percent in the last Ibope poll taken in late March. But that was before Temer was hit by the corruption charge.
Temer's rating has fallen below the worst result former President Dilma Rousseff received in an Ibope poll, when 9 percent of respondents said in late 2015 they approved of her government. Rousseff was impeached last year and her then-vice president, Temer, took over. Rousseff called that a "coup" orchestrated by Temer and allies so they could impede the corruption investigations.
Despite Temer's low approval rating, Brazilians remain split on whose government they disliked more, with 52 percent of respondents telling Ibope that Temer's is worse than Rousseff's. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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