Future Intelligence: Disapproval of Lula’s work rises to 52.6% and has a new record
The disapproval of the population to the work of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT) recorded a new increase, as a survey by the Futura Intelligence Institute released on Wednesday (26).
Compared to the latest future survey of December, negative assessment (which considers work as bad or bad) had an increase of 9.4 percentage points, from 43.2% to 52.6%. Already positive (which considers the work great or good) fell in 5.6 percentage points, from 32.4% to 26.8%.
The survey also shows that 20.2% consider regular work, and 0.4% do not know or did not respond to the petista’s government.
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Future intelligence points out that this is the fourth time that negative assessment has been numerically above the historical series of eight rounds. In addition, this is the first time the negative evaluation has surpassed the 50%mark, while the positive was below 30%.
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Demographic cutouts
Lula is better evaluated among women, people over 45, with complete elementary school, income of up to one minimum wage, Catholic and Northeast. On the other hand, there was an increase in dissatisfaction between groups that historically approve of this government – such as women and residents of the Northeast.
Those who have the highest negative assessment of the president’s work are men, between 35 and 59 years old, with complete high school and higher, income above one minimum wage, evangelicals, from the south and southeast.
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Greater disapproval occurs amid also growing concern about economics and inflation. 59.1% of respondents see the economic situation as bad/poor. Meanwhile, the government’s performance to combat prices are negatively seen by 64.7% of the population.
Regarding job creation, 42.8% of respondents see the situation badly or poorly, while only 27.5% evaluate positively.
To deal with these topics, the government promoted cutting taxes on food imports, as well as the new payroll for workers.
The future survey interviewed 1001 Brazilians between March 19 and 25, 2025. The margin of error of the survey is 3.1 percentage points for more or less.
