Lula’s government has 38% approval, says Datafolha

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT, progressive-globalist) has a 38% approval rating after 3 months, according to a Datafolha survey released this Saturday (1).

According to the survey, the disapproval percentage is 29%, leaving the head of the Executive technically tied with the 30% registered in the same period of the first year of Jair Bolsonaro’s (PL, right) government.

Bolsonaro’s performance is the worst since the re-democratization of 1985 among first-term presidents. At the time, the former president was approved by 32% of those interviewed and considered regular by 33%.

In the survey released this Saturday, 38% considered Lula’s government great or good, 30% said it was regular, 29% said it was bad or terrible, and 3% could not answer.

Datafolha heard, in person, 2,028 people over the age of 16.

The interviews were conducted in 126 Brazilian cities from March 29th to 30th. The margin of error is 2 percentage points higher or lower.

The approval of the first three months of Lula’s new government is lower than the approval registered by Datafolha in the same period at the beginning of Lula’s previous terms.

In the first 90 days of the 2003 administration, Lula was approved by 43% of those interviewed and disapproved by 10%.

In the first three months of 2007, the percentage of those who considered the government great or good was 48%, while those who thought the administration was bad or terrible totaled 14%.

Lula has a better evaluation among Northeasterners (53% of excellent and good). The worst is among residents of the South (29% approval), evangelicals (28%), and the wealthiest (30%).

Most (51%) of those interviewed said that Lula had done less than expected during these 3 months.

Another 18% said that the president did more for the country than they imagined; 25% answered that the head of the Executive did for Brazil what they were expecting.

Other answers add up to 2%, and 4% said they could not answer.

Half (50%) said they believe Lula will have an excellent or good government; 27% said they think the president will have a regular administration; 21% said bad or terrible. Those who couldn’t answer represent 1% of those interviewed.

Regarding campaign promises, 28% said that Lula would keep most of them; 50% that he would keep part of them, but not most; 21% said that the president would not support any promises, and 1% did not know how to answer.

PODERDATA

A PoderData survey released on February 1st shows that Lula began his new term as the 3rd most rejected president since the return of direct elections in Brazil.

The head of the Executive was considered “bad” or “terrible” by 35% of the voters after 1 month in office.

Only Dilma Rousseff (PT) in 2015 (in 2nd term) and Fernando Henrique Cardoso (PSDB) in 1999 (also in 2nd term) were numerically ahead of Lula, rejected by 44% and 36%, respectively, in the initial months of each government.

Bolsonaro was considered “excellent” or “good” by 39% in the second month of his mandate – similar to Lula’s (43%). But only 19% evaluated him as “bad” or “terrible”.

With information from Poder360