Bolsonaro's Priorities Don't Appeal To Most Brazilians

[Judi Lynn]

Bolsonaro's Priorities Don't Appeal To Most Brazilians
Datafolha poll shows that a significant part of the population disagrees with the president's main policy proposals

Jan.17.2019 1:31PM
Mauro Paulino e Alessandro Janoni

Results of a national Datafolha poll show suggest a detachment between president Bolsonaro's agenda and Brazilian public opinion.

Even thought Bolsonaro won by a majority of votes and there is an overall positive expectation about his term, voters' positions on some of the proposals announced by either him or his cabinet don't enjoy the same kind of support.

Except for immigrant control and reducing the age of majority, other points in Bolsonaro's agenda like depoliticizing schools, gun law reform and alignment with the United States in foreign policy and trade are condemned by a significant part of the population, with percentages close to 70%.

But other proposals, like reducing land areas destined to indigenous populations, cutting environmental protections, selling state companies to private investors and loss of labor rights, have high disapproval rates.

More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/01/bolsonaros-priorities-dont-appeal-to-most-brazilians.shtml?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsen

LBN:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142246434

[Judi Lynn]

1. Majority Of Brazilians Against Reducing Indigenous Reservations

Datafolha poll shows that six in every ten people oppose policies against Native Brazilian territories; Bolsonaro administration promised to revise land grants

Jan.14.2019 11:07AM
Maeli Prado

BRASÍLIA
Six in every 10 Brazilians oppose reducing the area destined to indigenous reservations in the Amazon. The topic is back into the public discussion since January 1st, when president Jair Bolsonaro transferred land assignments from Funai, the Brazilian federal agency for indigenous affairs, to the Ministry of Agriculture.

The number comes from a Datafolha poll that interviewed 2,077 in 130 towns between December 18th and 19th, 2018. The margin of error is two points above or below, considering a confidence interval of 95%.

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The secretariat of land affairs, a newly created agency with the Ministry of Agriculture, is led by Nabhan Garcia, former leader of an association of rural landowners.

Garcia says that the department will "impartially review" all indigenous lands boundaries set in the last ten years, and the government can nullify land grants to indigenous peoples if it finds any flaws in the grant procedures.

More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2019/01/majority-of-brazilians-against-reducing-indigenous-reservations.shtml

The "secretariat of land affairs" represents the avaricious, murderous sector of wealthy land grabbers who practise driving people out of their ancestral homes, selling the trees, and using the ground for grazing their cattle. Not a clean action by Bolsonaro, handing control of Native lands over to descendants of the raping, pillaging, brutal invaders.