Lula’s popularity remains at around 40% after five months of government

37% of brazilian consider the government of the president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva “great or good”after the first five months in power, according to a survey released this Saturday by the Datafolha institute.

The approval percentage remains stable compared to the previous survey carried out at the end of March, when it reached 38%, and is similar to that of other investigations carried out in past months.

According to this new Datafolha survey, 33% describe the management of the progressive president as “regular” and another 27% called it “terrible”. Another 3% had no opinion on the matter.

The results were obtained from face-to-face interviews with 2,010 people in 112 Brazilian municipalities between June 12 and 14, and have a margin of error of 2 points.

Lula assumed the Presidency of Brazil on January 1 after prevailing in the hard-fought second round of the October 2022 elections against the then head of state Jair Bolsonaro, who lost re-election by less than 2 points.

The progressive leader, who already governed between 2003 and 2010, has proposed “rebuild” the country and “make the Brazilian people smile again” after four years of administration of the far-right leader.

In his first months in the Presidency, he rescued social programs from his first two terms and that had been abandoned by Bolsonaro, and faced an attempted coup by thousands of followers of his predecessor who destroyed the headquarters of the three powers of the Nation to force his overthrow.

More recent are the frictions that he has with Congress, with a conservative majority and key for the great projects of the Government to go ahead, although according to the Datafolha survey, these tensions have not eroded his image in the electorate as a whole.

In the economic context, Lula promoted a change in the fuel price policy, which has allowed them to fall, slightly alleviating inflation, although high interest rates, today at 13.75% per year, have slowed down growth. country’s economy and job creation.

Source: EFE