Approval rating of Chile's President Bachelet falls to new low

Reuters ^ | Thu Oct 2, 2014 | REUTERS/IVAN ALVARADO

[Viennacon]

Chile's President Michelle Bachelet saw her approval rating fall for the third straight month in September, though support for her key reforms improved, a poll showed on Thursday.

Overall approval of the center-left president slipped 2 percentage points from August to 47 percent, said pollster Gfk Adimark, Bachelet's lowest rating in the monthly survey since returning to power in March.

As well as flagging economic growth, there was a spate of bombings in capital Santiago in September, including one that left 14 people injured and another that left a man dead.

Ahead of her second non-consecutive term, Bachelet promised an ambitious tax reform to finance improvements in education and healthcare, and help cut the vast gap between rich and poor.

The wide-ranging reforms have triggered a heated debate, and in particular right-wing politicians and businesses have argued that the tax changes will be a further drag on the economy and could increase unemployment. Doubts as to the final form the tax reform would take also created uncertainty and impacted on its popularity.

[Viennacon]

Not nearly low enough for this baby killer b*tch. She's a modern day Allende, and I hope there is a Pinochet somewhere in Chile willing to make things right again before this woman legalizes sodomitical marriage as she has promised.

[Vendome]

Tia Leoni’s Mom is so stoopit.

[dfwgator]

"Miss Me, Yet?"

[free-in-nyc]

“Tax reform” = tax increase. The leftist media again provides cover for its own.

[GeronL]

“center-left” probably means a rabid socialist

[rrrod]

Chile was the success story of all S America....and this slimey gutter whore has ruined all of Chiles accomplishments.