Strong increase in rejection of Jair Bolsonaro's response to fires in the Amazon

RIO DE JANEIRO.- In crisis for the
The fires in the Amazon, the rejection of the government of Jair Bolsonaro have had a pronounced growth:
According to a new Datafolha survey, disapproval has increased five points in the last two months and today, 38% of Brazilians feel that their management is bad or bad., the worst result for a Brazilian president during his first eight months in office.

Bolsonaro's approval went from 33% in July to 29% today, while the number of those who consider their government as regular has remained stable, rising from 31% to 30%, in the margin of error two percentage points of the survey, last weekend.

The rapid wear and tear of the Brazilian president's image coincides with the radicalization of his far-right speech over the last few months, as well as with international critics regarding his treatment of the drug. record increase in fires in the Amazon rainforest. However, during these months, the government has also achieved great success with the approval by the Chamber of Deputies of the pension reform project presented by its neoliberal economic team, deemed essential by the markets to revive the weakened economy. In this sense, the collapse of the Bolsonaro Approval Index among the wealthiest Brazilians, who dropped 15 points from 52% to 37% today, is striking .

The rapid wear and tear of the image of the Brazilian president coincides with a radicalization of his far-right speech in recent months

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Bolsonaro remains president-elect who, for the first term, has the worst qualifying of his first eight months of government since Fernando Collor de Mellowhich, in 1990, was rejected at 20%. At this stage of the mandate, Fernando Henrique Cardoso's disapproval was 15%, Luiz Inacio's Lula da Silva 10% and Dilma Rousseff's 11% (Itamar Franco and Michel Temer badumed their respective governments in 1992). and in 2016 after the dismissal of Presidents Collor de Mello and Rousseff, they are not compared to the elected Heads of State).

In addition to questioning Bolsonaro's controversial form of exercising his government, Datafolha had already warned that 75% of Brazilians believed that the international clamor of fires in the Amazon was legitimate, reinforced by discourse and anti-measures measures. -environmental of the president.

"As a result, the absolute majority of respondents rejected the government's response to concern.Public opinion is largely convinced that the fierce and pbadionate reactions of Bolsonaro against other world leaders have adversely affected to foreign investments in the region, "said Mauro Paulino and Alessandro Janoni, respectively managing director and director of Datafolha Surveys.

For badysts, "the persistence in the belligerent tone (of the president) tends to dehydrate the popularity of Bolsonaro to levels close to its core loyal: between 10% who consider him a very good president and 14% of hard Bolonarists. The survey also revealed that 44% of respondents never trust what the president says, while 32% of respondents do not join Bolsonaro.