President attributed a recent drop in popularity to the price of food and said that the Brazilians who criticized him were right
The President (PT) declared this Thursday (12.ago.2025) that Brazilians who criticized him in recent months because of food prices were right. The petista attributed the results of recent research that showed a drop in popularity to the effects of inflation.
“The people were right to be kind of pissed because the cost of living was expensive, the beans were expensive, the rice was expensive, the coffee is still expensive, the meat was very expensive. […] The people are right and now we have to be committed to improving and things are getting better ”said Lula in an interview in the program as well BandNews.
The president also said he was not concerned about his business performance because this is not his electorate. “I never worried about the election behavior of the business community, because I think most have never voted for me. With me there are a matter of skin, they know where I came from, they know about my origin, I do not fail to say which side I am, to whom I government.”he declared.
Search Power held from July 26 to 28 that 53% of Brazilians disapprove of the Lula administration. It was the first time in almost 1 year that the rate fell. Prior to that, in June, 3 percentage points, confirming the high trend throughout 2025.
The data were collected from July 26 to 28, 2025, through calls to mobile phones and fixed phones. There were 2,500 interviews in 182 municipalities in the 27 units of the Federation. The margin of error is 2 percentage points. The confidence interval is 95%.
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