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SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Support for Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has plummeted in some of Brazil’s biggest cities, polls showed on Sunday, suggesting that a previous bump could be short-lived as the country still grapples with a brutal coronavirus epidemic.
Previous polls have seen support for the former captain of the far-right army increase, despite what is widely seen as his mismanagement of an outbreak that has now killed more than 160,000 Brazilians.
Sunday polls suggested support may wane.
According to a Datafolha poll, carried out in early November and published in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo, its support for Sao Paulo fell to 25% against 29%, while in Belo Horizonte it fell to 35% against 40%, compared with a previous poll taken from September 21 to 22. The margin of error was 3 percentage points, according to the report.
In Recife and Rio de Janeiro, its support has been more stable, according to polls.
Meanwhile, a separate compilation of data by pollster Ibope, compiled by the G1 website, showed on Sunday that support for Bolsonaro fell in seven state capitals.
The biggest drops in support came in the cities of Salvador and Rio Branco, where Bolsonaro’s popularity fell by 7 percentage points.
While Bolsonaro has been criticized by health experts for downplaying the severity of the coronavirus and opposing lockdowns in order to keep the economy running, his popularity was bolstered by a R $ 322 billion payment program ( $ 58 billion), analysts said.
(Reporting by Roberto Samora; Editing by Daniel Wallis)
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