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Brazilian voters’ opinion of First Lady Rosângela da Silva, known as Janja, worsened in 2024, according to a Genial/Quaest survey carried out in early December.
Janja’s popularity drops and reaches its lowest level since the beginning of the Lula government, says Quaest. Photo: Vinícius Schmidt/Metrópoles
The positive evaluation registered a further drop, going from 28% in December 2023 to 22% currently. In February last year, 41% of voters had a positive opinion of her, which means that Janja has lost almost half of her popularity since Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) took office.
At the same time, the first lady’s negative rating reached 28%. The rate was 19% at the beginning of the government and had already risen to 26% last December.
According to the survey, 30% of respondents rate Janja as regular. The group represented 32% in the previous survey and 22% at the beginning of the government. Undecided are 20%.
Assessment of First Lady Rosângela da Silva – Genial/Quaest
Quaest Research interviewed 8,598 Brazilians aged 16 or over between December 4th and 9th. Photo: Reproduction/Terra
Quaest interviewed 8,598 Brazilians aged 16 or over between the 4th and 9th of December. The confidence level is 95% and the margin of error is one percentage point.
The evaluation of the Lula government as a whole is better than that of Janja: 34% of those interviewed consider the Lula government to be regular, compared to 33% who evaluate it as positive and 31% as negative. Another 2% were unable to answer. Approval of Lula’s own work is 52%, while 47% disapprove.
The worsening of the first lady’s positive evaluation in these two years was driven by the Northeast, where she had a 56% positive evaluation in February last year, a percentage that is now 29%, and by those who voted for Lula in the second round of the election. In the latter case, there was a drop of 30 percentage points. In February 2023, 66% of PT voters evaluated Janja positively compared to the current 36%.
Janja’s negative assessment is preponderant among Jair Bolsonaro’s voters (58%), those with a family income of more than five minimum wages (39%), incomplete higher education or more (37%), men (34%), evangelicals ( 34%), and those who live in the South (33%) and Southeast (32%).
