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Colombia president’s approval rating rises during pandemic

June 16, 2020
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Colombia president’s approval rating rises during pandemic
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The coronavirus pandemic has battered the popularity of governments and leaders around the world, yet Colombia’s Ivan Duque has actually received an unexpected boost in public opinion.
With unprecedented media exposure during the pandemic, the president’s approval rating more than doubled from 23% in February to 52% by the end of April.
Fighting the outbreak has allowed him to shift his government’s focus from social unrest and accusations of corruption.
But politicians and analysts predicted that when the crisis ends, Duque’s popularity will fall again under renewed pressure from unions, students and opposition politicians in a country where the pandemic has worsened existing social and economic challenges.
Just days after Colombia reported its first case of Covid-19 in early March, Duque declared a state of emergency, allowing him to issue decrees without congressional approval.
The state of emergency and subsequent quarantine declared to control the spread of coronavirus threw water on twin political fires of social unrest and a scandal over alleged vote buying by a rancher accused of having links to drug traffickers.
Since the pandemic’s arrival, Duque has appeared on television each night, allowing him to flex his independence and muting criticism that he was a mere errand boy carrying out orders of his political mentor, ex-president Alvaro Uribe.
“He’s demonstrated that he is capable of governing without needing his hand held,” said German Varon, a senator for centrist party Radical Change.
The pandemic has changed Duque’s agenda in Colombia’s congress, Varon said, where the government has allocated millions of dollars in subsidies to poor people and to businesses to mitigate the economic impact of the quarantine.
Previously, Duque’s government was focused on bills to modernise the country’s justice and electoral system and trying to push through unpopular pension and labour reforms.
While pension changes look to eliminate the highest retirement subsidies, labour reform would allow companies to hire workers by the hour, a move opposed by unions and a large section of congress.
Varon said Duque will not be able to maintain his current popularity during an economic recession and rising unemployment.
“It won’t be easy. His popularity and support are fragile and if the pandemic and its effects aren’t properly managed, people will feel endangered and those gains will be lost,” Varon said.
Rising cases of Covid-19 also could tarnish Duque’s image, warned Sergio Guzman, an analyst at Colombia Risk Analysis, despite the fact Colombia has fewer cases and deaths than neighbouring countries like Brazil, Ecuador, Peru and Chile.
Left-wing opponents have vowed that they will not let the pandemic bury the scandal involving allegations of vote-buying by the rancher during Duque’s presidential run in the second round of the 2018 election.
Recorded phone calls of rancher Jose Guillermo Hernandez referring to Duque as “my brother” and hinting at resources to support his campaign in Colombia’s La Guajira province, as well as photos of Hernandez and Duque together, landed Colombia’s leader in hot water.

— to m.gulf-times.com

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