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The evaluation of the federal government and the approval of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) worsened. Lula’s approval rate fell from 50% to 40.5%, while disapproval rose from 46% to 55% – jump of 9 percentage points.
CNT: negative government assessment goes to 44%; Lula is disapproved for 55%. Photo: Reproduction
As for the federal government, the negative assessment recorded growth of 13 percentage points over the previous round of November 2024, when it was 31%, and reached 44%.
The data are part of the 163rd round of the CNT Opinion Survey, released on Tuesday (25/2) by the National Transport Confederation (CNT). 2,002 people were interviewed between 19 and 23 February. The margin of error is 2.2 percentage points.
Low Popularity of Lula
- Approval of the third term of the Lula government fell from 35% in December to 24% in Februaryaccording to Datafolha. It is the lowest index of the three mandates of the petista.
- To reverse disapproval and strengthen the candidacy for reelection, Lula bets on travel agenda and investment ads.
- The president’s team attributes the low popularity to the impact of the “pix crisis”.
- Lula intends to travel further and visit some states in 2025.
- Espírito Santo, Santa Catarina and Bahia are planned.
Compared to the latest CNT Opinion Survey, conducted in November 2024, President Lula’s disapproval variation rose 9 percentage points. While approval has retreated 10 percentage points.
The evaluation of interviewees for the federal government is mostly bad/bad (44%).
Economy has worse evaluation, according to CNT
The areas considered the best performance are: help to the poorest (22%), education (13%) and international relations (11%). On the other hand, areas with worst evaluation by respondents were economy (32%), safety (20%) and health (13%).
