(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Chilean president Michelle Bachelet is maintaining her level of support above the 40 per cent mark, according to a poll by Adimark Gfk. 42 per cent of respondents approve of Bachelet’s performance, practically unchanged since August.

Bachelet—a former defence minister—was elected in a January 2006 run-off as the candidate for the centre-left Agreement of Parties for Democracy (CPD) with 53.49 per cent of all cast ballots. She officially took over as president in March 2006.

Since taking office, Bachelet has faced massive protests staged by high school students complaining about the poor quality of public education, as well as street demonstrations in Santiago, the capital city, over the botched implementation of a new transportation program called Transantiago.

On Oct. 2, Bachelet vowed to continue a fight against corruption, saying, "The best antidote against corruption is to let the daylight fill each corner of our public and private activities. (...) [Chile] has tuned its sensitivity and intolerance to corruption, favouritism, patronage system, discriminations and sectarianism in the exercise of the public functions."

Polling Data

Do you approve or disapprove of Michelle Bachelet’s performance as president?

Source: Adimark Gfk
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,037 Chilean adults, conducted from Sept. 5 to Sept. 30, 2008. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

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