(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - More people in Uruguay back the administration of Tabaré Vázquez, according to a poll by Interconsult. 58 per cent of respondents approve of the president’s performance, up two points since March.

Vázquez—nominee for the leftist Progressive Encounter (EP)—won the October 2004 election with 50.45 per cent of the vote, becoming the first Uruguayan president to represent a political organization other than the Red Party (PC) and the National Party-Whites (PN-B).

The president officially took over in March 2005, and began his government with majorities in the Chamber of Deputies—with 52 lawmakers in the 99-seat lower house—and the Chamber of Senators—with 18 legislators in the 31-seat upper house.

On Sept. 18, Alvaro García of the Socialist Party (PS) replaced Danilo Astori as finance minister. García declared as he accepted his new mandate: "I firmly believe that Uruguay has a long way to go to achieve prosperity for its entire people. We must work beyond partisan views and only then we will achieve this."

Astori is widely expected to become the EP’s presidential candidate in the October 2009 election.

Polling Data

Do you approve or disapprove of the performance of Tabaré Vázquez as president?

Source: Interconsult
Methodology: Interviews to 880 Uruguayan adults, conducted from Aug. 9 to Aug. 11, 2008. Margin of error is 3.2 per cent.

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