Poll shows Brazil president’s popularity drops

By Washington Examiner

Published April 6, 2014 5:25pm ET

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Poll shows Brazil president’s popularity drops — FILE - In this July 1, 2013 file photo, Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff gives a news conference in Brasilia, Brazil. Rousseff's popularity has dipped five percentage points ahead of October's presidential elections, according to a poll published by the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper on Sunday, April 6, 2014. Datafolha attributed the drop in Rousseff's popularity to rising inflation and fears of unemployment and lower purchasing power. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres, File) | Eraldo Peres

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity has dipped five percentage points ahead of October’s presidential elections, a new poll published Sunday said.

The Datafolha polling institute said 36 percent of respondents rated Rousseff’s government as “great/good” against the 41 percent who gave it that rating in the firm’s previous poll conducted in February.

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