Bukele tops list of most popular Latin American leaders with %91 approval rating: Here's the ranking
In terms of popularity, Nayib Bukele is not beaten by anyone. He leads the list of leaders in Latin America with 91% and leads second place Rodrigo Chaves, the president of Costa Rica, by almost 30 points.
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- Published Date: 01:05 | 04 May 2023
- Modified Date: 01:20 | 04 May 2023
Colombia's Gustavo Petro is in the middle of the region with a 36% citizen favourability, very far from the numbers of the Salvadoran president or other presidents in the region.
Bukele shared that list on his Twitter account with an emoticon of a huge smile.
The List
The one who fares the worst in America is the Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel. And very close to him is Dina Boluarte, the woman who became president after the debacle and escape of Pedro Castillo in Peru. The two have only 16%.
The president of Panama Laurentino Cortizo has 21% and Alberto Fernández of Argentina, 22%. The controversial Nicolás Maduro, paradoxically, is not in the queue either, but he does have a low 26%.
The rest of the list is occupied by leaders such as Luis Abinader, from the Dominican Republic in third place with 61% approval, and then the left-wing Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, appears with 58%.
Luis Lacalle Pou, from the Uruguayan right has 47%; Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who reaches 44%, and the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, who is tied with the Brazilian, before reaching 36% of Petro.
Tied with the Colombian president is Luis Arce, Bolivian president and natural successor to Evo Morales.
Then there is Guillermo Lasso with four points less than Petro. Already at the bottom of the statistics is the Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega with a 30% popularity, equaled with the Chilean leftist president, Gabriel Boric.
Bukele's smile
The tweet shared by the Salvadoran president has had a great reception on his account on the social network.
At the time of publication, it has over 1,500 retweets, more than 100 quoted tweets, and more than 8,000 likes on the post.
The tweet also had more than 400,000 views that President Bukele's tweet has.
Within the comments on the tweet, most users congratulated the president for his favorable results in his country's surveys, while others questioned the veracity of the figures, which are compared with the most influential firm in each country.
In the case of the Central American country, it was due to the poll of the newspaper La Prensa Gráfica.