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Approval rates of Brazil's Rousseff administration down

Xinhua, July 22, 2015 Adjust font size:

The approval rates of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her administration both dropped considerably in July, according to a survey released on Tuesday.

The poll, done by the polling firm MDA last week and commissioned by the National Transports Confederation (CNT), shows that 70.9 percent of the 2,002 interviewees consider the Rousseff administration "bad" or "very bad", representing a 6.1-percentage rise compared with the previous poll in March.

The government's approval rate is the lowest since October 1999, when then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was in the first year of his second term, much like President Rousseff, who started her second term in January.

During the same period, Rousseff's personal approval rate also fell from 18.9 percent to 15.3 percent. Those who disapprove of the president rose from 77 to 79 percent.

"The poll shows an elevation of Brazilian citizens' pessimism due to the increase of living cost, rising inflation rate and unemployment, and the strong perception of corruption and the government's incapacity to solve it," said CNT President Clesio Andrade. Endi