President Luis Lacalle Pou maintains a stable approval of his government management at the head of Uruguay now entering the last year of his mandate, despite the recent scandals that have hit, in principle, people very close to him, as indicated by the latest survey of Consultants Option.
The consulting firm Opción presented the results of its latest survey on perception of the management of the national governmentwhich showed little change in the area of approval for Lacalle Pou. A positive aspect, considering the recent controversy surrounding the Marset case and the delivery of the Uruguayan passport to the drug trafficker, which ended with the resignation of two ministers, an undersecretary and a presidential advisor, as well as the possibility that the head of state himself would be called to testify in court for his participation in the events. .
In this sense, the results of the survey highlighted that the approval rate continues to “reach the 42%.”
This is not the case with the disapproval towards the management of the government in general, where the greatest impact of the accumulation of scandals with which the government reaches its last year was observed: “disapproval registers a 8 point growth compared to the previous quarter, standing at 32%, the report noted.
With these figures, the consultancy affirms that “a strong stability trend in the approval of government work. “12% of Uruguayans maintain that management is very good and another 30% consider it to be good.”
This stability is also due to the fact that there have now been six consecutive quarters with minimal or no variations in approval, “which allows us to conclude that the government has a ‘hard’ floor of approvalresistant to various events of the situation”.
What impact did the Marset case have on the survey?
The survey carried out by Opción Consultores covered the moments of strong controversy that the government experienced – designated as a political crisis by those within and outside the ruling party -, which led to the resignation of the ministers. Francisco Bustillo and Luis Alberto Heberthe undersecretary Guillermo Maciel and the presidential advisor Roberto Lafluf.
“However, in the core that previously approved of the presidential work, these relevant public events do not seem to have affected it enough to change the general grade given to the government,” Opción noted in the report.
The changes were recorded in disapproval, which reached 32%, while in the previous measurement, three months ago, it was 24%. This variation of 8 points could mean an assimilation by citizens of the situation that was being experienced at the political level.
The truth is that, equally and despite the strong increase in disapproval, the figures are aligned to existing ones in most recent quarters, as the consulting firm was responsible for specifying.
“It could be said, therefore, thator there is sufficient evidence to conclude that the government crisis related to the Marset case substantially altered the structure of government approval and disapproval of the last two years,” the analysis concluded.
Source: Ambito
