Brazilians don’t just want Zika out of their country. According to a new poll, a majority of the country’s population support an investigation into the corruption surrounding the state’s major oil producer, Petrobras. And they don’t care how much it costs.
According to a Reuters report, an overwhelming majority of Brazilians want an investigation into the sprawling kickback scheme at Petrobras to continue, despite concerns that it is hurting the nation's ailing economy.
Fully 90 percent of Brazilians say the investigation should continue, whatever the cost, according to the survey by polling firm Ipsos. Forty-six percent of those asked indicated they thought the scandal was damaging an already weak economy. The poll also found that President Dilma Rousseff's popularity remains in the single digits, with just 5 percent of those asked saying she was doing a good or great job.
The released poll has made it official that Dilma Rousseff has now become the most unpopular president Brazil has had since its return to a democratic government 30 years ago. Gone are the days of 48 percent approval ratings, which is what she clocked in back in October 2014 when she was first re-elected. But many Brazilians seem to hold a pretty bleak outlook on their country in general. The Ipsos poll found that a whooping 92 percent said that the country was "not on the right track." But I guess dealing with the worst recession you’ve seen in 100 years while trying to find a way to pay for the Olympics would dampen anyone’s day. And then there’s Zika…
Sources: www.reuters.com/...