Brazil’s Bolsonaro Faces Record-Low Polling
- President was described as bad or terrible by 30 percent
- Pollster’s director says Bolsonaro needs to ‘fit the job’
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An opinion poll shows Jair Bolsonaro is facing the lowest approval rate for a first-term Brazilian president through 100 days among all elected predecessors since the country’s return to democracy in the late 1980s.
The former army captain’s government was described as “bad” or “terrible” by 30 percent of respondents, almost as many as those rating it “good” or “very good,” according to a Datafolha poll published Sunday on Folha de S. Paulo newspaper. That makes Bolsonaro even less popular than Fernando Collor de Mello, the former president who in 1990 seized bank deposits shortly after his inauguration.