Brazil Politics: Right Surpasses Left
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For the first time since 2014, more Brazilians identify with the political right (44%) than the left (39%), according to a Datafolha poll. Women in Brazil lean more left than men, while a majority of evangelical Christians identify with the right.
Right-wing identification overtakes left-wing sentiment in Brazil for first time since 2014, Datafolha finds
For the first time since 2014, more Brazilians place themselves on the right than on the left, according to a Datafolha poll released Friday. The survey, conducted during Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s presidency, classified 44% of respondents as right-wing or center-right, against 39% as left-wing or center-left. The five-point difference falls outside the poll’s two-point margin of error. Datafolha…
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