Poll: Confidence in Milei’s government falls for fifth month running

Civic confidence in President Javier Milei’s government suffered an abrupt fall of 12.1 percent last month, extending a five-month downward turn, according to a new survey.

According to the monthly ‘Index of Confidence in the Government’ (ICG) measurement, a poll tracked by the Government School of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, the La Libertad Avanza administration’s popularity has now dropped to a low matched by ex-president Mauricio Macri’s government in April 2018.

The Di Tella poll ranks confidence in the government on a scale from zero to five. According to the survey, April’s ICG figure was 2.02 points, a steep fall of 12.1 percent on the preceding month. 

Falling confidence in the government had already been evident in March, with a drop of 2.3 percentage points from February. 

Milei’s government has thus accumulated five consecutive falls: December (-0.1 percent), January (-2.8 percent), February (-0.6 percent), March (-3.5 percent) and April (-12.1 percent).

Last month’s fall is "the most pronounced,” though the “accumulated contraction since the end of last year is 17.9 percent," the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella report indicates.

"The average of the Milei administration now drops to 2.42 points, his lowest mark. As a reference, the averages of Mauricio Macri and Alberto Fernández at the same stages of their administrations were 2.53 and 1.97 points, respectively,” it states.

The last time the ICG rose was last November, a month after the La Libertad Avanza’s electoral triumph in the midterm legislative elections, when it registered 2.47 points.

The ICG measures the evolution of public opinion regarding the work of the national government and is designed to capture what the citizenry thinks, as estimated on the basis of five dimensions.

The aim is to measure the image or general evaluation of the government; the perception of whether they govern thinking of the common good or that of particular sectors; their efficiency in the administration of public spending; the honesty of government members and their capacity to resolve the country’s problems. 

– TIMES/NA