Uruguay’s Lacalle Pou has lowest approval rating since taking office -survey

The Uruguayan pollster Equipos Consultores revealed that the disapproval of President Luis Lacalle Pou increased two percentage points compared to the poll carried out in May.

According to the study, 46% of those surveyed approve of the president’s management and 37% disapprove of it. 16% responded that “neither approve nor disapprove” and 1% have no opinion on the matter.

The disapproval went from 30% in May to 37% in June and exceeded the maximum record of disapproval that had been registered in April, with 33%.

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Regarding this, the public opinion director of Equipos Consultores, Ignacio Zuasnábar, said at the presentation of the survey: “The net balance, which is the subtraction between approval and disapproval, is 9 positive points, but it is a divided public opinion, and somewhat more divided than what we had been seeing throughout the government.”

Likewise, Zuasnábar commented that the government started “very well” with levels that reached 65% approval, but in the middle of 2021, in the framework of a first increase in fuel prices, approval dropped to 47% and disapproval climbed above 30%.

On the other hand, the survey indicates that 82% of people who identify with right-wing ideals approve of the administration, compared to 10% who remain “neutral” and 8% who disapprove.

In the political center, 42% approve of the management, compared to 23% who neither approve nor disapprove and 33% who disapprove. Meanwhile, among those who identify with the left, 73% disapprove of the administration, 16% neither approve nor disapprove, and 11% approve of President Lacalle Pou’s administration.

The survey was carried out between the end of June and the first days of July, and 1,200 interviews were carried out (700 face-to-face and 500 by telephone).