Uribe’s approval ratings implode; Is Colombia’s ex-president’s Teflon coming off?

[Judi Lynn]

Uribe’s approval ratings implode; Is Colombia’s ex-president’s Teflon coming off?
Oct 10, 2014 posted by Adriaan Alsema



In spite of dozens of scandals including one that involved the killing of thousands of civilians, former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has always maintained a high approval rating in his country. Until now.

According to several polls that had not been reported on by local media, the former president has lost the majority approval and is even suffering a higher disapproval rating than approval rating, according to one of the pollster.

According to Gallup Colombia, the former president’s disapproval rating exceeded his approval rating in June, the month Colombia went to the polls for a second presidential election round amid accusations Uribe’s candidate, Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, had been illegally spying on ongoing peace talks with rebel group FARC. The latest poll, that of August, shows Uribe enjoys as much approval as disapproval.

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Jorge Londoño of Gallup attributed the most recent drop in popularity to Zuluaga’s loss in the elections and the preceding scandals over his campaign illegally spying on ongoing peace talks with rebel group FARC.

http://colombiareports.co/uribes-approval-ratings-implode-colombias-ex-presidents-teflon-coming/

[PeoViejo]

1. Uribe has been playing it safe all along

staying under the protection of his Norteno 'friends', rather than risk the inevitable at Home.