Rousseff government ratings up
President Dilma Rousseff between Ricardo Berzoini (left), head of the Government Secretariat, and Chief of Staff Jaques Wagner (right) attending a ceremony at the presidential palace
President Dilma Rousseff's approval ratings have gone up from 7.7% in July to 8.8% in October, considering all “good” and “excellent” ratings combined. The figures are in a poll released today (Oct. 27) by the National Confederation of Transport, provided by MDA research institute.
The latest poll has found that 1.3% of respondents rate the government as “excellent”; as against 7.5% who rate it as “good”, 20.4% as “average”, 18.1% as “poor”, and 51.9% as “terrible”. The other 0.8% of respondents were not sure or did not answer. In July, the results were 1.5% “excellent” ratings; 6.2% “good”; 20.5% “average”; 18.5% “poor”, and 52.4% “terrible” ratings.
Rousseff's personal performance is approved of by 15.9% of respondents and disapproved of by 80.7%. In the previous survey, these figures were 15.3% and 79.9% respectively. The percentage of respondents who were not sure or did not answer was 3.4%, down from a previous 4.8%.
MDA Institute heard 2,002 people in 24 Brazilian states between October 20 and 24. The margin of sampling error of the poll was plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.
Translated by Mayra Borges
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