The president of the Republic Luis Lacalle Pou and former president José Mujica continue to be the two political leaders who generate the greatest sympathy in the population, according to the latest Equipos survey broadcast this Monday on Underlined (Channel 10).
Mujica leads the ranking of politicians who generate the most sympathy with 50%, followed by Lacalle Pou, which reached 43%. Both led in sympathy in the last Team survey, released in September 2022.
Likeability ranking of political leaders
Below these leaders appears the mayor of Montevideo Caroline Cosse (35%) and the former Minister of Economy Danilo Astori (also with 35%). The mayor of Canelones, Yamandú Orsi, follows them with 34% and the former Minister of Public Health Daniel Salinas with 33%.
“Except for President Lacalle Pou, the figure with the best image of the government coalition is someone who is not participating in political activity today, and has stated that he will not, who is the former Minister of Public Health Daniel Salinas,” says a of the survey findings.
Below Salinas and former president Julio María Sanguinetti (28%) appears the secretary of the Presidency and potential candidate of the National Party, Álvaro Delgado, with 26% sympathy.
The most resisted
Ranking of antipathy of political leaders
The senator of the National Party, Juan Sartori, as well as the senator and leader of Cabildo Abierto, Guido Manini Ríos, They are the political leaders who generate the greatest rejectionwith 58 and 53%, respectively.
the former senator Pedro Bordaberrywho is out of politics but recently re-registered the group Vamos Uruguay within the Colorado Partypick up a 49% dislike.
They are followed by the Minister of the Interior Luis Alberto Heber with 48% and the potential candidate in the white inmates Laura Raffo with 45% of antipathy.
Those with the best “net balance”
Ranking of “net balance” of political leaders
The net balance is the result between the sympathy and antipathy of politicians. Of all the 32 political leaders “only (there are) five Uruguayan political leaders with a positive balance (that is, they receive more ‘likes’ than ‘dislikes’ in the total population),” the study states.
The first place is held by the former president Mujica with +19 pointsfollowed by Orsi with +10, Lacalle Pou +7, Daniel Salinas +5, and Danilo Astori with +2.
Both Carolina Cosse and Álvaro Delgado have a negative balance. The Mayor of Montevideo has -2 and the Secretary of the Presidency has -7 points.
The survey was prepared by Equipos Consultores between April 11 and 24, 2023 from surveys conducted in person. A total of 704 people were consulted, all over 18 years of age, residing in towns with more than 2,000 inhabitants throughout the national territory. 176 sample points were covered throughout the country. The maximum expected margin of error for a survey of 704 cases is +- 3.7%, within a 95% confidence interval.
