Correio newspaper | Facing a drop in popularity, President Lula is expected to come to Bahia this week

The head of Palácio do Planalto goes to the Bahian city of Teixeira de Freitas, where former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) narrowly won in the 2022 election

Published on May 6, 2024 at 7:41 pm

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), who is facing a drop in popularity, is expected to arrive in Bahia this week, according to Governor Jerônimo Rodrigues (PT).

According to the Bahian PT member, the head of Palácio do Planalto is going to the Bahian city of Teixeira de Freitas, where former president Jair Bolsonaro (PL) narrowly won in the 2022 election. It was a difference of less than 2,500 votes. “It is planned to be with us in Teixeira de Freitas, handing over the Costa das Baleias Hospital, and who knows if it will work out for us to make new announcements. We are working with the Civil House, with Health, with Education”, stated the governor yesterday.

At the beginning of March, three different institutes showed a drop in approval of the PT government: IPEC (formerly Ibope), AtlasIntel and Quaest. In Salvador, the largest school in Bahia, Real Times Big Data, Paraná Pesquisas and AtlasIntel also pointed out the decrease in approval of Lula’s administration in the capital of Bahia.

For the CEO of AtlasIntel, Andrei Roman, Jerônimo Rodrigues’ disapproval may have affected Lula’s positive evaluation in Salvador.

“There is a certain contamination of the state context. So, we see that, in the state context, the disapproval of Governor Jerônimo rose more than the disapproval of Lula. Perhaps, this may have had a slight impact on the approval of the president. It is not possible to separate which factors impacted independently because the voter himself does not make this interpretation so clearly. But, perhaps, the possible worsening of the state government’s assessment (may have affected Lula’s assessment), which is aligned”, said Roman, when speaking. point out that Lula’s drop in popularity may have occurred throughout the state of Bahia.