Brazilian president's approval rate reaches record-high for third consecutive time

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's approval rate reached record-high for the third consecutive week, according to a survey released by the Datafolha Institute on Tuesday evening.

According to Datafolha, 83 percent of Brazilians think Lula's administration to be good or very good, up from 82 percent last week. A total of 13 percent think Lula's administration regular, down from 14 percent in the previous poll.

Only 3 percent of Brazilians think Lula's administration bad or very bad, the same with that released last week. The remaining 1 percent did not have an opinion on the matter.

According to the survey, the Lula administration is approved by 96 percent of the citizens who plan to vote on Lula's party's candidate for succession, Dilma Rousseff. Among the voters of opposition candidate Jose Serra, 67 percent approve the current administration.

President Lula received an average grade of 8.2 out of 10, the same registered last week.

The Datafolha survey was carried out on Tuesday with 4,066 people from 246 municipalities all over Brazil. The margin of error is of 2 percentage points.

President Lula is in the last months of his second term. He will leave office in January, and is currently determined to elect his party's candidate for succession, Dilma Rousseff, which has the lead in all election polls.

Source: Xinhua