(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Fernando Lugo holds an overwhelming level of public support in Paraguay, according to a poll by First Análisis y Estudios published in ABC Color. 93 per cent of respondents have a good or very good opinion of the new president.

In April, Paraguayans voted in presidential and legislative elections. Lugo, a former Catholic bishop representing the left-leaning Patriotic Alliance for Change (APC), won the ballot with 42.3 per cent of the vote. Presidential candidates in Paraguay are not compelled to garner more than 50 per cent of the vote in order to win the election.

Lugo’s victory ended six decades of one-party rule in Paraguay. The National Republican Association - Red Party (ANR) had been in power since 1947, even during the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner.

Lugo was sworn in on Aug. 15. The new president, who is known in Paraguay as "the Bishop of the Poor", recently described his political leanings, saying, "I am in the centre, like the hole in a poncho."

Polling Data

Do you haver a good or bad opinion of Fernando Lugo?

Source: First Análisis y Estudios / ABC Color
Methodology: Interviews with 1,000 Paraguayan adults, conducted from Jul. 14 to Jul. 22, 2008. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.

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