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President Javier Milei He heads a ranking of South American presidents, with a 55.7% positive image and 41.9% negative image. These are the conclusions of a recent survey by the firm CB Consultora, which surveyed ten leaders of the region and placed the president of Peru in last place, Dina Boluarte.
Milei obtained a 27.9% “very good” image; 27.8% “good” image; 13.8% “bad” image; 28.1% of the image was “very bad”, while 2.4% of respondents chose the option “does not know/does not answer”. The sum of the good and very good image gives the result of 55.7% positive image, while the addition of the “bad” and “very bad” evaluations results in 41.9% negative image.
The Argentine president improved his level of positive image compared to what he registered in the month of May, when it was 54.8%. The survey was carried out between June 11 and 15, and revealed 1,325 cases with a margin of error of 2.7%.
The podium of the presidents with the best image in the CB Consultora survey is completed by the Ecuadorian Daniel Noboa and the Brazilian Lula Silva. Noboa reached 54.3% positive image, with 42.2% negative image. Lula, 51.3% positive and 45.6% negative.
In fourth place is the president of Uruguay, Luis Lacalle Pou, with a positive image of 50.8% (the negative is 46.1%). In fifth place is the Paraguayan president, Santiago Penawith 48.5% positive image and 48.3% negative image.
Presidents ranked from sixth to tenth have a higher level of negative image than positive one. Sixth is Luis Arce (Bolivia), which has a 52.8% negative image and a 43.8% positive image. The Venezuelan appears seventh Nicolas Madurowho will seek re-election next month: he has a 58.4% negative image and 39.3% positive image.
In eighth place is Gustavo Petro (Colombia), confronted with Milei to the point of withdrawing its ambassador in Buenos Aires. Petro has a 57.4% negative image, and its positive ratings reach 38.9%. The ninth is the Chilean Gabriel Boric, which is also involved in a dispute with the Milei administration, over Argentine solar panels located in Chilean territory. In the survey, Boric has a 60.1% negative image (the positive image is 37.5%).
In tenth and last place is Boluarte, the Peruvian president who faces accusations of corruption in her country for the so-called “Rolexgate” and for a case of influence peddling that led to her brother and one of her lawyers being arrested. The negative image of the president of Peru is 68.5%; the negative, 26.7%.
In total, the survey covered 12,341 cases that were surveyed through a system on-line called CAWI.
In another survey released in recent days, carried out by the firm CID Gallup, the approval of the efforts of 12 Latin American presidents was evaluated. On that list, Milei appears eighth, with 36% management approval. The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, leads the survey, with 92% approval. In last place, as in the previous study, is Boluarte, with 6%.
The CID Gallup list includes some leaders that CB Consultora (Bukele; Luis Abinaderfrom Dominican Republic; Rodrigo Chavesfrom Costa Rica; Bernardo Arevalofrom Guatemala; Xiomara Castrofrom Honduras; Daniel Ortegafrom Nicaragua, and Laurentino Cortizofrom Panama) and excludes others who do appear in the first survey (Lacalle Pou, Boric, Peña, Lula and Maduro).
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