What do Brazilians think of Dilma Rousseff?
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Brazilians in general think that Dilma Rousseff was a bad President who seemed to be under influence when giving speeches.

I voted for her in 2010 and had extremely high hopes for her government; for a moment in her first year, I thought she would finally change her Party and sweep away shady coalition members (I didn’t really understand politics then), but as 2011 went by, things got worse.

Dilma Rousseff does not like politics. She is a natural bureaucrat and her style seemed to be autocratic in comparison to her predecessors Lula and FHC, who were real politicians. Dilma had never been elected before and still has very little political experience; she was only elected for two reasons: more people hated José Serra and Aécio Neves in 2010 and 2014, and she had the unconditional support of her “mentor”, Lula.

She was elected because of her supposedly great “managerial” skills — Dilma had been Minister for Mines and Energy, and Chief of Staff under Lula — but she had never been the natural heir to Lula’s legacy; hadn’t it not been the Mensalão scandal, another very big and complicated corruption scandal, Lula’s successor would’ve been José Dirceu, another charismatic left-wing figure. After Dirceu was arrested, Lula and the Workers’ Party (PT) chose Dilma in a hurry: she was an unknown figure and they would have more than enough time to build her image. Many thought that Dilma was former President Lula’s wife

, which was conveniently ignored by her Party’s propaganda machine.

Dilma didn’t have a totally clean slate: her official CV falsely claimed that she had a Masters and a Ph.D. in Economics

and she was known for demanding that people called her “Doctor”. Lula’s charm and PT’s finances, however, managed to make her the ideal candidate. Her government proved everyone wrong.



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This question can be simply answered by stating that most Brazilians do find her unfit for presidency. Since more than 70% think her government is a bad one nowadays.

But political things in Brazil are never simple, since it's a country with multiple powerful parties, very complicate (and convoluted) relationship between the Three Powers, considerably young modern democracy (military dictatorship ended in the 80's and is a major hub of interested in the current geopolitical struggles (which is a thing that most Brazilians, right or left, keep forgetting about).

You can say that support to her through socioeconomic spheres change drastically, but saying poor and educated people support her, while rich and educated don't is an oversimplification. Support dynamics to Dilma is more similar to Obama than most Brazilians (conservative or liberal) would care to admit.
She indeed has a lot of support in volume from poor people, since she is a bastion of the social welfare programs that gained strength throughout her party's government (since former president Lula from 2002 to 2009). This population is indeed mostly motivated by the gigantic living standards leap they went through in the last decade (starvation was a serious grievance in the 90's).
But she also has a somewhat strong support from the middle class in the regions were most positively affected by the social welfare programs and growth/infrastructure incentives in the last decade (North and Northwest). There was a greater improvement there than the already rich South/Southeast where she faces the strongest opposition. But than again, migration of people below the poverty line in southern urban centers plummeted, which had a positive impact rarely approached in these regions.
Another social group that mostly supports her is the one made by most liberals and intellectuals, although they tend to do a lot of criticism towards her lack of political skill and resolution, they see her as a better alternative than her main opposition. Actually, the more you go up in social related education (sociology, journalism, anthropology, political sciences, etc), the more support you find for her.

On the other hand, the bulge of the South/Southwest population do believe she's not only incompetent but also corrupt. Most of the middle and upper classes would like to see her impeached tomorrow, even if that meant Brazil facing a downgrade in its investment rating due to political instability and a party that would assume the executive power is way deeper into the corruption scandals that hers. So yeah, you can say that there is a HUGE slice of the population that hates her to brink of having a considerable number asking for military coup.
Considering the higher education slice, among technical/financial oriented fields of education (engineers, business adm, MDs) are mostly against her. Which is a bit complicated since this population is strongly intertwined with the richest layer in Brazilan society.

...not to mention that the richest population in country that is social inequal and not far off from its recent dictatorship tends to be the most educated AND the most conservative at once.

So things are complicated... Support for her shifts in a layered onion fashion through Brazilian society. But the strangest thing about this dynamic is that most of the Brazilians that are against her use catchphrases and advocate on ideologies very similar to the anti-Obama movement in U.S., yet they identify themselves as democrats, sympathize with Obama and think of them selves as liberals (while they are only liberals I the economical sense, not the social one).

 

 

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