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Majority of Brazilians want Rousseff, Temer to go: poll

Xinhua, April 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

Sixty-two percent of the Brazilian population wants both Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Vice President Michel Temer to "leave the government," a latest poll showed Monday.

The Brazilian Institute of Public Opinion and Statistics, which conducted the poll, said only 8 percent of respondents favored Rousseff's impeachment with Temer beginning a new government.

Furthermore, 70 percent of people aged between 16 and 24 favored the exit of both leaders.

Only 25 percent of those interviewed believed Rousseff should stay in office, because they approved of her performance, or wanted to see a new pact with the opposition for the maintainance of political and economic stability.

The poll interviewed 2,002 people from 142 municipalities across the country on April 14-18.

Rousseff is now facing impeachment over allegations that her administration violated fiscal laws. Rousseff has insisted the procedure amounts to an attempted coup against her. Endi