Overview

• Paraná Pesquisas reports 48.8% of São Paulo city voters approve of Lula’s government, 48.0% disapprove, and 3.2% did not answer.
• Lula’s approval rose from 38.2% in March to 41.9% in August and 48.8% in October, while disapproval fell from 58.1% to 48.0%.
• In performance ratings, 34.8% call the administration good or excellent and 38.1% rate it bad or terrible, with 25.3% saying regular.
• The poll interviewed 905 voters in the city from Oct. 9–12, with a margin of error of ±3.3 percentage points at 95% confidence.
• Governor Tarcísio de Freitas shows stronger standing, with 61.9% approval and 34.1% disapproval in the capital, and he leads statewide re-election scenarios over Geraldo Alckmin (48.3% to 27.2%) and Fernando Haddad (50.1% to 25.1%).