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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2009 (ISSN 1741-4431)
Lula still number one for Brazilians
On 1 June two new polls revealed that President Lula da Silva remains
incredibly popular as he heads into his final 18 months in office and, despite
his ineligibility for the 2010 elections, he still tops voters lists of
spontaneous candidates by a strong double digit margin. Lula's sustained
popularity, allied to signs that the current economic downturn has bottomed out,
is problematic for the main centrist opposition, which has responded with
fresh corruption allegations in an effort to discredit the
government.
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