Brazil’s President Has Approval Rating of 8%, Worst Since Military Dictatorship

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All is not well in Brazil. This is definitely something to keep an eye on:

From Business Insider:

Dilma Rousseff is now Brazil’s most unpopular democratically elected president since a military dictatorship ended in 1985, says a poll out Thursday that put her approval rating at eight percent.

Seventy-one percent of those questioned in the Datafolha survey said they disapprove of the way Rousseff is doing her job, up six points since June. Her approval rating is down from 10 percent.

And two-thirds would like to see her impeached.

Rousseff, the successor of wildly popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faces widespread anger over corruption, a stagnant economy and growing unemployment.

She is under siege from a corruption scandal at the state-run oil giant Petrobras that has also implicated the ruling Workers’ Party.

She chaired the board at the company, from 2003 to 2010, a period during which the corruption allegedly flourished. She has not been personally implicated in the scandal.

Once a much hailed success story, Brazil’s economy is now sputtering and inflation is high.

A rally calling for her resignation is scheduled for August 16.

I haven’t covered Brazil much at Liberty Blitzkrieg over the years, but here’s a related post from 2013: The Brazilian Spring: President Rousseff Booed at Soccer Match as 20,000 Set to Protest

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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