(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – People in Bolivia remain satisfied with Evo Morales, according to a poll by Ipsos, Apoyo, Opinión y Mercado published in La Razón. 60 per cent of respondents approve of their president’s performance, up three points since July.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – People in Bolivia remain satisfied with Evo Morales, according to a poll by Ipsos, Apoyo, Opinión y Mercado published in La Razón. 60 per cent of respondents approve of their president’s performance, up three points since July.
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.
Morales’s tenure has been focused on "re-founding" Bolivia through a new constitution. The new document was ratified last January.
The revamped constitution includes a bill of rights and an entire chapter dedicated to Bolivia’s 36 indigenous nations. It also put the economy in the hands of the state, limited landholdings, redistributed revenues from gas fields in the eastern lowlands to the country’s poorer areas, and included a compromise that will allow the current president to seek only one additional five-year term. Under the terms of the new body of law, a general election has been scheduled for Dec. 6. Morales will seek a new term in office.
On Sept. 28, Morales presented a proposal to transform some of the country’s military headquarters into universities that would be attended by soldiers, declaring, "If we don’t have a better handle on information and communication, it will be difficult to believe in the development of Bolivia."
Polling Data
Do you approve or disapprove of Evo Morales’s performance as president?
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Sept. 2009 |
Jul. 2009 |
Apr. 2009 |
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Approve |
60% |
57% |
53% |
|
Disapprove |
36% |
39% |
43% |
Source: Ipsos, Apoyo, Opinión y Mercado / La Razón
Methodology: Interviews with 1,024 Bolivian adults in La Paz, El Alto, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz, conducted from Sept. 10 to Sept. 18, 2009. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.
