Negative Assessment of Lula's Government Remains at 38%, Positive at 32%

President Lula’s administration is rated negatively by 38% of Brazilian voters. A total of 32% consider the leftist leader’s government positive, while 29% classify it as average, according to a new Datafolha poll released Saturday (20).

When asked whether they approve or disapprove of Lula’s performance as president, 48% said they approve of the government (the same result as at the end of May), while 49% said they disapprove (compared with 48% at the end of last month). A total of 3% of respondents did not know how to answer in both May and June.

Since the previous poll, Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies approved a constitutional amendment proposal that would end the 6x1 work schedule (six working days followed by one day off), one of the government’s main electoral agenda items, but it is currently stalled in the Senate.

On the international front, Donald Trump’s government proposed a new 25% tariff on Brazilian goods and officially classified the criminal groups PCC and Comando Vermelho as terrorist organizations.

Datafolha also compared Lula’s current term with his previous administrations between 2003 and 2010. The government that began in 2023 is considered much better by 5% and better by 27%. The current administration is considered worse by 25% and much worse by 19%. Another 21% said the current term is the same as previous ones, and 3% did not know how to answer.

In the negative assessment, Lula now reaches 38% of voters rating his government as bad or very bad, a higher percentage than all other presidents since 1994, except Bolsonaro, who reached 47% in 2022.

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