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Weekly Report - 27 February 2025 (WR-25-08)
BRAZIL: Lula takes action as popularity slides
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has reacted swiftly to his precipitous fall in the polls in the last two months by dismissing his health minister, Nísia Trindade, who had held the post since he took office in January 2023, in the first change in what is likely to be a wider cabinet reshuffle. While the economy is a concern for the public, especially persistently high inflation, more than twice as many respondents cited health as their main concern in the latest opinion survey by the national pollster Datafolha, which showed Lula’s approval rating tumbling by 11 percentage points in the space of two months to just 24%.
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