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Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff Approval Rating Crashes To 8% - Worst Since Military Dictatorship
With the economy imploding, currency collapsing, and credit risk soaring, it is perhaps no surprise that just under a year since she was re-elected, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff is now Brazil's most unpopular democratically elected president since a military dictatorship ended in 1985, with an approval rating of just 8%. In a recent poll, 71% said they disapprove of the way Rousseff is doing her job... and two-thirds would like to see her impeached.
Via The Digital Journal,
Dilma Rousseff is now Brazil's most unpopular democratically elected president since a military dictatorship ended in 1985, says a poll out Thursday that put her approval rating at eight percent.
Seventy-one percent of those questioned in the Datafolha survey said they disapprove of the way Rousseff is doing her job, up six points since June. Her approval rating is down from 10 percent.
And two-thirds would like to see her impeached.
Rousseff, the successor of wildly popular former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, faces widespread anger over corruption, a stagnant economy and growing unemployment.
Her numbers are worse than those of Fernando Collor de Mello, who resigned in 1992 over corruption allegations. Right before he stepped down he had an approval rating of nine percent and disapproval of 68 percent.
"Dilma has thus become the president with the worst approval rating among all those elected directly since the return of democracy," said the web site of the newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo, which belongs to the same group as Datafolha.
Datafolha began conducting national polls during the rule of Collor. In 1990 he became the first democratically elected president since the end of the military regime.
His predecessor, Jose Sarney, took power in 1985 as vice president under Tancredo Neves. Neves had been elected president by congress after 21 years of military rule, but died before he could assume office.
Rousseff began her second term in January after winning re-election by a thin margin, and things are already looking grim.
As we previously noted, the WSJ adds, Rousseff is facing a combination of negative factors, of which the depressionary economy is just one: "The county’s economy is expected to contract by around 1.8% this year, according to a central bank survey of private sector bank economists. Annual inflation stands at 9.25%, well above the central bank’s tolerance band of 2.5% to 6.5%. And the poor economic conditions are raising fears among Brazilians that they could lose their jobs."
Then there is corruption:
Meanwhile, a continuing investigation surrounding state-run oil company Petróleo Brasileiro SA, or Petrobras, is also weighing on Ms. Rousseff’s approval rating, though she hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing and has denied involvement in the scandal. Petrobras has said it is cooperating with the investigation.
Earlier this week, federal police arrested José Dirceu, a former minister of ex-President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on allegations that he received bribes from former Petrobras executives. A lawyer representing Mr. Dirceu said he denies any wrongdoing.
Mr. da Silva, who handpicked Ms. Rousseff as his party’s candidate to succeed him, hasn’t been implicated in the Petrobras scandal.
Worse, like in Greece, Brazil's ruling coalition is now fracturing, when yesterday two parties broke from President Dilma Rousseff’s ruling coalition, further eroding support for her measures to shore up the country’s fiscal accounts.
This happened after the lower house approved in a first round vote a constitutional amendment by 445 against 16 votes granting salary increases to police chiefs, prosecutors and government attorneys. The bill still needs to pass a second round vote before going to the Senate.
Earlier, leaders of the Brazilian Labor Party and the Democratic Labor Party, or PTB and PDT, said they would act independently and no longer participate in meetings of the ruling coalition. The parties together have 44 out of 513 seats in the Chamber.
But Brazil's biggest concern, the one from which all of its other problems stem, is China. Unless the country that was the driver of Brazil's commodity export golden age returns to its place as Brazil's most important trading partner, no matter what fiscal or monetary policies Brazil implements, the domestic politics, already ugly, are set to get worse.
And as everyone knows by now, China has its own spate of problems to deal with, with Brazil's commodity export troubles far on the back burner.
Which is why expect more credit market participants to notice the depressionary developments in brazil, and as the country's CDS continue to blow out, many will start asking themselves: is Brazil the next Argentina?
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Female leadership, what else were you expecting?
she musta gone to skool for community organizing.
Rousseff is a socialist/marxist who panders to the poor with free shit for votes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilma_Rousseff
Brazil has been, is and will always be the coutry of the future.
B-RICS.
Australia's next.
A First Recession for Australian Millennialshttp://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-30/a-first-recession-for-a...
The Olympics in Brazil shoould be great.
buta jiru
During the World Cup - Dilma was heckled by Brazilian fans. She wasted $11.5 billion on the world cup. It did not help matters that the Germans steamrolled a hapless Brazilian team. It was not pretty as the Germans just swamped the box and played almost like thugs. The Brazilian team totally sucked.
The chant was
'Hey! Dilma! F--- yourself in the ass!'"
HAHAHA!!!! She's still more popular than Robert Mugabe!!!
Wait...
I guess that ain't sayin' much.
I am sure her "popularity" matters to her so much that she will take the tens of $Millions she has no doubt made and will make from her political "carrer" and slink off into high society and live the good life for the rest of her life.
Poor baby. That'll show her!
if you don't believe it, google "country of the future"
It was the Argentine first.Incredible wealth just frittered away by govt.
"Brazil is a country of the future, and always will be."
Attributed to Mark Twain.
I would not put my dick in Dilma, if that is what you are asking.
Glad to hear you do not have a Dilma Dilemma.
If the opposition is smart, they won't try to impeach her. China (and therefore Brazil) has much lower to go. EM economies and then the world economy are on the verge of following commodities into the abyss. Want to take power at the bottom, not half way down.
But, but, but...,
the world needs more womyn leaders.
Khazar running Brazil.
Go figure.
Not a khazar though. If she was she wouldn't have the mossad jackals after her.
If oil prices stay low for another couple of years, Brazil will be the new Argentina. Maybe South America can be renamed Greater Argentina then.
And Argentina will be the new Venezuela, and Venezuela can be the new Zimbabwe. The competition for the race to the bottom is intense.....
Oil prices will stay low for the next few years, here are some of the reasons for the global economic contraction:
All of those intentional activites restrain the global economy and long term suppress oil prices, worse more of the above are coming.
Ironically Japan restarting reactors is bullish for the global economy and will pump oil eventually, but not much, they will still have sanctions with Russia.
Just another shitty politician.
I bet Hitlery can excel her and get a negative rating in her first term.
"shitty" be redundant in this case.
Yeah but if we select Hitlary we won't get to say "first woman president in U.S. history".
You talk tough but use your Master's picture? Typical wuss possum. Come out of the closet already, you pink-loving name & pellet dropper.
Go for her Toms dog, and don't stop to eat any of those pellets, appetizing as they may be.
I didn't think it was possible to sink lower than Bush in the ratings polls. It's all good, in five years her picture will be all over Farcebook with a caption reading "miss me yet?"
"I didn't think it was possible to sink lower than Bush in the ratings polls. in five years her picture will be all over Farcebook with a caption reading "miss me yet?"
That would happen only if Obama succeeds her as dictator.
Don't worry and fret Dilma, your approval rating is still as high as our CONgress and they still have jobs....
What is it anout government bureaucrats always turning agains their own people?
Guilt but no remorse.Lazy assholes know they deserve stringing up, so its self
preservation.
ran out of other people's money to spend?
even with Socialism, that 'OPM' always eventually trickles back up to the top 1%
wonder what Obama's real approval rating really is?
Counting the apathetic and politically correct, probably over 50%.
Dilma is perhaps the moat incompetent leader on the planet On hee watch Petrobras was pillaged for many billions, its market cap imploded by about 90%. She claims to know nothing about it. She's esither as dumb as a rope, a lair or both. Probablybthe latter. Yet she was elected. Democracy=mob rule. Dilma is the case in point.
Dilma is perhaps the moat incompetent leader on the planet On hee watch Petrobras was pillaged for many billions, its market cap imploded by about 90%. She claims to know nothing about it. She's esither as dumb as a rope, a lair or both. Probablybthe latter. Yet she was elected. Democracy=mob rule. Dilma is the case in point.
To think this stupid cunt - whom was the honorary chaircunt of Petrobas (i.e. Lula's in house bag lady) during the gold rush years of stealing anything that wasn't nailed down and funnelling back into the party coffers did not leave her camel prints on some email or phone tap is to defy belief.
One day soon the email mail, cancelled check or something will see the light of day. She's too stupid and I have more respect for Lula marching this idiot up to the gallows while he skipped town (and that guy was in Petro kickbacks up to his eyeballs).
Meanwhile, what'S the plastic surgery disaster doing down in BA???
Socialism - Fails everywhere it's tried.
Part of my justification for being anti-social.
True. And the more of it they have, the bigger the failure.
Roussef is NOT responsible for theommodities IMPLOSION that is coming from China. It's jst her bad luck ... she was at the helm when the ship it the icebeg.
Roussef and her cronies were responsible for the corruption and theft from the state owned oil company Petrobras.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/11540233/D...
Telegraph: "A nationwide protest on Sunday saw hundreds of thousands take to the streets, with many calling for her impeachment."
I was in Curitiba/PA that day and saw it...many thousands out on the streets demanding her resignation and impeachment. Many demanding the military take over.
But so far, she has avoided being fingered for any part in the huge Petrobrás corruption scandal.
"Roussef and her cronies were responsible for the corruption and theft from the state owned oil company Petrobras.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/brazil/115 "
(Being the devil's advocate here) Just because you've read it in MSM (Telegraph in this case) does not make it necessarily true or at least accurate. There have been, are and will be efforts by 'youknowwho' to undermine BRICS or any other country or organization not falling in line with the 'full spectrum global dominance' strategy.
71% is paid by cia and ngo's will hand over the toiletpaper while signing in... your sanctions are more effective than nukes...you are in a good way of getting production back in home soil
Dilma Rousseff = a certain ethnicity or tribe; found often in the banking sector... surprise surprise!
"Dilma Rousseff = a certain ethnicity or tribe; found often in the banking sector... surprise surprise!"
She is not Jewish if this is what you suggest. Her father was a Bulgarian (orig. last name 'Rusev') communist.
Funny as hell, this is all leftist warmonger blowback from Obama, how so Smitty?
Ukraine /Syria war in collusion with Saudis & Iran against capitalist Russia.
Crater oil ---> bankrupt Brazil.
BTW Puerto Rico and Greece were bankrupted first from the Iraq war oil spike, which was entirely financial fraud. $100 barrel was never supported, it was a fraud price, like the price of housing in LA CA.
Bush & Obama , Saudis & Jews play good cop bad cop very well, where did their policies differ?
Saudis issuing bonds (selling assets to Jews) yes, they pay interest, to finance the Jewish Ukraine Russia war.
Fukushima is also an artificial economic restraint, along with our coal policy and green energy policies, and sanctions on Russia.
iraqi ladies have started their own campaing against Jeff... it shows pure vagina with a text... NO MORE BUSH..
Dilma has herself to blame. Brazil's had a virtual 10 year period of economic boom thanks to exports of raw stuff to China etc. Instead of using the revenues to invest in infrastructure and long term manufacturing growth projects, like all socialists she wasted it on creating a socially dependent society and corrupting Petrobrás.
As said many times:
"O Brasil, o país do futuro e sempre será"
For Dilma:
"aproveite a loucura enquanto ela dura"
"aproveite a loucura enquanto ela dura"
This very much applies to the U.S. and E.U. as well.
You see this with Indian casinos in the U.S. The profits go out in checks to buy votes in the next tribal election, rather than for community centers, education, athletic programs, establishing new industries or businesses, etc.
Spot On in All Regards and Eloquently Put........
And as to your Profile Comments, I couldn't agree more....
This is likewise "MEXICO'S CHOICE."
Dilma should follow the example of President Getulio Vargas
Move over Maduro .... you are Jimmy Carter .... and Rouseff is your Obama !
Politicians, they'd rather be strung up on a lamp post, than walk. Sociopathic leaders, and sheeple for people. They deserve each other.
I'm waiting to see the implosion when the bill to host the Olympics comes due. Another Crapa del Mundo boondoggle.
Everything is good in Brasil - the olympics are coming!
Good luck sorting out that corruption.
Wow! even 3% lower than CONgress!
Looks like American funded NGO crows are getting upper hand
and NSA has infiltrated more into her private parts