(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – More Bolivians are satisfied with Evo Morales, according to a poll by Ipsos Apoyo, Opinión y Mercado. 59 per cent of respondents approve of their president’s performance, up two points since August.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – More Bolivians are satisfied with Evo Morales, according to a poll by Ipsos Apoyo, Opinión y Mercado. 59 per cent of respondents approve of their president’s performance, up two points since August.
Morales—an indigenous leader and former coca-leaf farmer—won the December 2005 presidential election as the candidate for the Movement to Socialism (MAS), with 53.7 per cent of the vote. He officially took over as Bolivia’s head of state in January 2006.
In August 2006, the National Constituent Assembly—an elected ad-hoc body tasked with re-writing the country’s constitution—held its first session. The assembly was supposed to sit for just one year, but it has failed to finalize the document. When ready, the proposed body of law must be approved by two-thirds of the 255 lawmakers, and then ratified in a nationwide referendum.
On Sept. 28, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visited Bolivia. Morales and Ahmadinejad issued a joint communiqué, where they recognized "the right of countries to develop nuclear energy with peaceful ends within the framework of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)."
Polling Data
Do you approve or disapprove of Evo Morales’ performance as president?
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Sept. 2007 |
Aug. 2007 |
Jul. 2007 |
|
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Approve |
59% |
57% |
61% |
|
Disapprove |
37% |
39% |
34% |
Source: Ipsos Apoyo, Opinión y Mercado
Methodology: Interviews with 1,025 Bolivian adults in La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, conducted in September 2007. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.
