Chile President’s Disapproval Rating Reaches 50% in First Month
- 36-year-old Boric losses support faster than predecessors
- More than one-third polled reject rewriting the constitution
Photographer: Juan Mabromata/AFP/Getty Images
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Chileans are quickly souring on their new president and his embrace of a new constitution, with polls showing that roughly half of the people surveyed disapprove of the young leader after just his first month in office.
Disapproval of President Gabriel Boric rose to 57%, up more than 10 percentage points since mid-March when he took office, according to a survey by Santiago-based pollster Activa published on Sunday. His approval rating fell 6.2 percentage points to 28%, the poll showed.