Petro approval falls to 34% and 57% believe their son is guilty

The management of President Gustavo Petro is not going through its best moment. At least not for the citizenry. The most recent Opinómetro study, carried out by Company SA for W Radio, showed that only 34% approve of the management of the head of state while 55% disapprove.

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The data is a drop of two points with respect to the approval of the last measurement in which it was located at 36%.

However, The region where there is the greatest approval of the president is the Oriental, with 68%. While in the Pacific it is where the disapproval is lower with 34% and an approval of 58%.

The measurement included some current issues in the country. For example, the recent accusations for alleged corruption of Nicolás Petro, Deputy of the Atlantic and eldest son of the Head of State.

Faced with this question, 57% of respondents said they believe he is guilty while only 9% consider that they are innocent. In contrast, 30% do not know the case.

(See: ‘Too bad, I will continue to go by helicopter’: Francia Márquez on travel).

On the other hand, 55% of Colombians believe that you should not negotiate with drug traffickers. 36% do agree. This, regarding the government’s “total peace” policy in which some irregularities were denounced in which they would be negotiating with drug traffickers, who really must submit and for that a law is going to be filed in Congress.

1. Name of the research project
COLOMBIAN OPINOMETER.
2. Survey Signature
DATEXCO COMPANY SA – OPINOMETER.
3. Collection dates
March 9 to 10, 2023
4. Natural or legal person who made it
DATEXCO COMPANY SA – OPINOMETER.
5. Natural or legal person who entrusted it
The W.
6. Source of financing
The W.
7. Population universe
Total Colombian population over 18 years of age.
8. Target group
Men and women older than 18 years of age in the study scope regions.
9. Type of sample
Multistage Sampling
10. Technique used for sample selection
Random selection of telephone numbers on RDD (Random Digital Dialing) telephone series in the regions covered by the study.
11. Weighting
Weighted sample population size, by gender and age (Source: Dane Census 2018), socioeconomic level (Source: National Planning)
12. Sampling frame
Database of the telephone series of the selected cities within the regions covered by the study.
13. Sample size
700 Telephone surveys.
14. Geographic Universe
Municipalities: Bogotá DC (246), Barranquilla (66), Cartagena (22), Montería (9), Santa Marta (2), Sincelejo (4), Soledad (2), Valledupar (6), Armenia (6), Bello (7), Florencia (2), Ibagué (20), Manizales (13), Medellín (90), Neiva (10), Pereira (11), Bucaramanga (46), Cúcuta (9), Facatativá (1), Floridablanca (4), Soacha (15), Villavicencio (15), Cali (74), Palmira (4), Pasto (6), Popayán (8) and Roldanillo (1).
15. Collection technique
Household telephone survey.
16. Characters who were investigated
Gustavo Petro, Nicolás Petro, Juan Fernando Petrol.
17. Margin of error and reliability (Precision)
A relative standard error margin of estimation of 3.7% is observed for proportions with a phenomenon of occurrence greater than 50% and with a
confidence level of 95%.
18. Study topics
Peace process drug traffickers, cannabis legalization, labor reform.
19. Specific questions that were asked
See the questions in the “General” chapter
20. Report delivery date
March 12, 2023