Argentina's President Javier Milei ranks as South America's most popular head of state, according to a regional opinion poll released Wednesday by research institute CB Consulta Opinion Public.
of investigationArgentina's liberal president leads the charts, with an approval rating of 51.8 percent by 2024, making him the region's most rated president, according to a December survey of regional countries by an Argentina-based research institute. He became a high-ranking president. It is the only one with an approval rating of over 50%.
Uruguay Outgoing Center-right President Luis Lacalle Pou came in second with 49.8%, and Paraguayan conservative Santiago Peña came in third with 46.7%.
Millay's approval rating, measured during December, rose from 50.2 percent recorded by CB Consulta Opinion Publica. november Public opinion poll. At the time, Millais was in second place in the rankings, against Lacalle Pou, who had an approval rating of 51.5 percent. Among the monthly voting results for September, Millais reportedly It took 6th place.
Milay, who took office in December 2023, spent his first year in office conducting a sweeping overhaul of Argentina's bloated government institutions, enacting a series of radical “shock therapy” measures and sweeping policies. reform This is to avoid the country's economic collapse and avoid a hyperinflationary spiral. This policy succeeded in reducing the inflation rate from 25.5% in January to 2.4% in 2020. november.
Most notably, a study by CB Consultora Opinión Pública found that all of the region's left-wing presidents ranked alongside Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro for the worst ratings.
Brazil's radical leftist president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, ranked fifth, with 53.1% of respondents having a negative opinion of him, compared to 44.3% who said they had a favorable opinion of him. Chile's far-left president Gabriel Boric came in sixth place with an approval rating of 40.2%.
In Colombia, Gustavo Petro, a former member of the Marxist guerrilla M19 and the country's first left-wing president, was ranked 7th, with 39.9% of respondents expressing a favorable opinion of Petro and 39.9% expressing a negative opinion. 56.6% expressed this. columbia media reported On Wednesday, it was announced that poll results show support for Petro has been declining from 41.2% in November.
The three worst-rated presidents in the region are Bolivia's socialist president Luis Arce, Venezuela's socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and Peru's Dina Bolarte, according to the survey results.
Arce, infamous pro-Iranian faction The president is currently engaged in a long-running power struggle with his former leader and suspect for control of Bolivia. pedophile Evo Morales received an approval rating of 33.6% of respondents, but 63.2% had negative responses.
President Maduro held a highly fraudulent presidential election in late July and began brutal persecution. campaign The year 2024 ended with a disapproval rate of 67.4% for the opposition parties who protested the fraudulent election events and their “results.” President Maduro is scheduled to begin his new fraudulently obtained six-year presidential term on January 10, 2025.
Finally, Peru's leftist president Dina Bolarte was rated by respondents as the worst president in South America, with 76.4% expressing disapproval of the Peruvian president. Mr. Bolarte, a former member of the Marxist Free Peru Party, is a member of former Marxist Pedro Castillo, who was impeached and arrested in December 2022 after an unsuccessful attempt to retain power through the dissolution of Congress. He was appointed as the successor to the president. autogolpe (“Self-coup”). Mr. Bolarte served as Castillo's vice president.
