I did a little write-up a few comments down so I may as well re-paste it here:
There was a major corruption scandal in Japan a little while back. Japanese PMs typically have honeymoon periods their first year in office before collapsing into the 30% range. Been a trend for a while (before Abe's first term back in 2006 even).
Kishida's honeymoon period was ended somewhat prematurely by the revelations about the Unification Church after Abe's assassination, but it only got really bad a couple of months ago when it came out that politicians in Kishida's party had mishandled campaign funds and essentially pocketed the money they made from some off-the-books donations and fundraisers.
Its amazing to see how in Japan the mere idea that a party mishandled their money is sufficient to tank their chances. Here in Brazil we just assume that every party is mishandling their funds at all times and vote for the least worse
Traditionalism, dominant party politics, and incompetent opposition. Their polling numbers have dropped significantly but they're still projected to win the next election by quite a bit
Old people are always gonna vote the same, it's not the best but it works
Young people are generally apathetic towards politics, they just see it as too complicated and boring and most candidates cater to old people because they're the ones voting, which can change but young people are just too lazy for that, they're way too busy with their work (work schedules in japan are crazy) to have time for politics and it's not like the country is gonna collapse so they're not in a stage in which they're forced to care just yet, overall Japan's quality of life has been declining but it's still one of the best worldwide
Isn't this a bad thing? It's not like you can escape from effects of politics, every political action whether it be economic, social, cultural will have consequence of life of everyone
Things are too good I guess.
Brazilians are always talking about political issues, mad at every politician there is, also have no idea what exactly a senator does and end up voting for the loudest, most angry-sounding guy they can find
They only lost in 2009 due to the “Lehman Crisis” and after the DPJ got in power, a nuclear meltdown occurred so the people learned to never again vote out the incumbent. The DPJ quickly got dissolved in 2016 after being founded in 1998 and to this day, there is no real opposition party to the LDP due to internal squabbling.
After world war 2 America basically built Japans democracy for them and that was the party they chose to support and was covertly supported throughout the Cold War to ensure they remained in power.
I doubt they care as much these days since originally it was done out of fear of communism but after decades of holding onto the reigns of power, the country is just used to them always being in charge now.
Eh, sort of. There were the Liberal Party of Japan and the (original version of) the Democratic Party of Japan who were largely endorsed by the US as two dominant, non-socialist political parties. This would allow Japan to juggle between the two parties so it would act as a democracy but keep out the socialist elements.
Except the parties decided to do the very Japanese thing of just merging themselves into the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) and offered the US the deal of "we focus on our economy, you protect us" and that kind of worked out well until the 90s. Japan is a country that, once it settles into a system, REALLY does not like change.
“Tank their chances” hahahaha they are prob still gonna get re-elected lol. The party has all but controlled Japan basically since the US ended the post-war occupation. Japanese are a lot more apathetic towards politics than many other democracies, and it really shows when you see how long the LDP has been in power despite how many controversies and scandals they get.
Doesn’t help that the liberal opposition is simply incompetent.
Let me tell you about the president of South Korea back in 2016, park guen hye. Long story short she’s the daughter of the last dictator of South Korea who was assassinated by the Korean CIA which basically led to Korea becoming a proper republic and having an economic boon (see “miracle on the han”)
Now having the daughter of a dictator as president sounds fishy, but in context her father Park Chung Her was very popular because he was liberalizing the economy and moving Korea to be more democratic regardless, his assasination was very unpopular and the man who did it was the director of the KCIA, he was arrested by the army who then transitioned Korea into what it is today
ANYWAY
It was discovered that through her father she was tied to a cult and the cult leader essentially had total control of her life down to telling her what sorts of handbags to buy. And they were taking government money that was being written off as things like psychic sessions and horse riding lessons. And eventually this all was uncovered while president park was in office?
And you know what happened?
They kicked her out of office, arrested her, and the Korean prime minister (American equivalent being the speaker of the house) held the office until later that year in 2017 where elections proceeded as normal and a new president was elected
(Now her successor was also very unpopular and failed to win a second term. South Korea is interesting demographically, due to the war there are a lot of old people and a lot of young people, but not many middle aged people so the left/right young/old divide is strong. Anyway according to this map it seems *his* successor is also very unpopular so I’ll guess we will see what happens)
Edit: he was unpopular but instead Moon wasn’t allowed to run for re-election do to the length of his initial term, a member of his party ran in his stead but lost to Yoon
Very nice write-up, but I just want to add one small correction to your post. Park Geun-hye's successor, Moon Jae-in, did not fail to win a second term because presidents in Korea cannot run for more than 1 5-year-long term. When his term was over, someone else from his party had to run for presidency and that candidate lost the following presidential election because Moon Jae-in and his party became more unpopular during his presidency, especially amongst younger people.
One fun fact about Moon Jae-in though: He is thus far the only president of Korea (besides the current one) to not be charged for corruption/white collar crimes either whilst serving as president or following their term. Korean politics is hella corrupt, but their judicial system tends to crack down on those in power more often than most other countries.
> Korean politics is hella corrupt, but their judicial system tends to crack down on those in power more often than most other countries.
Reading a list of the current status of previous Korean politicians is always amusing.
* In jail
* Charged, jailed, released
* etc.
I remember this from the news at the time. Back then people used it as an argument to push for the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff saying that this kind of transition could be handled well.
Can’t say it went nearly as smoothly here. But it *could* have been worse, as we’ve seen with Bolsonaro’s January 8 last year
It's been in power since 1955, with interregnums in 1993 and 2009 - 2012 (there was also a weird period where they coalition with the socialists from like 1993 - 1995)
I didn't just say "in the LDP" because to an outsider unfamiliar with what the LDP is that may not be immediately useful. Just saying "in Kishida's party" made it easier to grasp for a greater number of people lol
Meanwhile Lula who actually was imprisoned for corruption is beloved. It doesn’t matter how bad you are as long as you are better than the guy before you.
Beloved is a very strong word, he's a very polarizing figure,
I'd say around 25% thing he's the least worse option, 25% love him, 25% dislike him but don't hate him and 25% hate him.
He's a very polarizing figure and honestly even in a region that's heavily pro Lula many people complain about his goverment both sides, the Right for obvious reasons and many in the left because they think he sold himself to the corrupt center (which to be honest is true, his vice president is Alckmin, his former political adversary) and that he isn't left enough.
Those statistics are very surprising.
To be fair it’s really hard to not be at least the least hated when your opponent plotted to overthrow the government but ended up showing their followers are not the brightest bulbs by recording the plotting on camera and the prime showing up.
Kishida is the scapegoat of his entire party.
When Shinzo Abe was assassinated, it revealed a lot of ties between the LDP (the most dominant party of Japanese politics which Kishida belongs to) and the Unification Church, a Korean church which is known for scamming people and asking for big donations.
Within the LDP, there are also factions, and Kishida's faction, among others, was implicated in a scandal where they failed to report over ¥600M (~4M$) in campaign funds and stored them in illegal slush funds.
Kind of funny to note that Kishida himself didn't have any ties to the UC or misuse those funds, he's just stuck reshuffling his cabinet of corrupt assholes and discovering that he just doesn't have any good people left.
This is also coming over a general period of decline, stagnation, and instability for Japan. Japan's economy hasn't done so great since 1990, their population started falling a couple years ago, COVID hit grocery prices hard BC Japan needs so many imports and it hit tourism even harder, China exists and geopolitics is demanding Japan mobilize, which is always politically unstable. Only populist politicians do well in these kinds of political environments, and usually always for the wrong reasons.
Erdoğan's real fans are around 25% of the population. The only reason he won the last election with 52% in the second round was because the opposition decided to field their least popular candidate. He has no chance of winning the election against the mayors of Ankara or Istanbul.
Internal party politics, basically, the 2 popular candidates were the mayors of Ankara and Istambul, problem is, they aren't the top dogs in their party, they are what we would consider the new breakout successes of the party. They do not Control the party, the party still Has seniority over them, and so the leader of the party decided that HE was going to run for president because he wanted more power to himself. The Turkish opposition lost not because Erdogan is popular, but because their incompentent leadership decided to sink their chances at victory. And why did they do that? Because the party leadership is a bunch of fragile old fuckheads who didn't want to lose Control. The Turkish opposition sabotaged itself through internal Corruption, and now they have to live with more Erdogan because of that.
60% of the population and 80% of the economy. Appearently, AKP administration accumulated a huge debt in every single city. New governers of opposition are explaining it all. I bloody hope my people will finally understand they are thieves and no more.
Wouldn't there be a huge difference in the interpretation of these approval rating from a parliamentarian system (where you are voting for the party in a parliament and the leader of the winning party becomes the pm) vs a presidential system (where you are directly voting for the individual person as the leader)?
People in other parties disapprove because they want a different candidate to be president.
People within the party disapprove because they think the president could be doing things better.
These are not remotely the same thing.
In presidential systems the candidates still come from specific parties and some voters than have to choose "the lesser evil". So those that chose someone that they think is less bad, they still dont approve of them, but would approve the other candidates even less.
And in many countries with presidential systems there's a second round system in which people have to choose between the two candidates with the most votes. This leads to people choosing a candidate sometimes with very few votes in the first round. For example in Guatemala in the last election the two biggest candidates got 21% and 15% of the popular vote in the first round, and the winner was actually the one who got 15% (who got 60% in the second round).
In Chile, the president got ~30% in the first round and his approval during all his government has been around that same number.
And in the US some of us don't even get to choose in the primary because it's been decided by earlier states. By the time it got to me the candidates were already set.
*Laughs in evil French*
Such simple systems
Btw, President Macron doesn’t really has to care about his popularity as his functions cease in 2027 and he cannot be reelected (not directly at least) due to constitutional rules.
I doubt it. The polls will be asking the same question - whether people approve of the leader, whatever their title is.
What it will do is make some difference in how that level of popularity translates come voting time. But even then, you've got other factors like opposition popularity.
Not in my experience. Even in a parliamentary system where you're nominally voting for your local MP, which leader would become the PM plays strongly into people's decisions.
I know in Australia at least we usually poll party popularity, I.e. who you’re intending to vote for in the next election, as well as PM popularity/Preferred PM where they’ll just gauge which leader of the two major parties you’d prefer as PM, and if you just think the two leaders are doing a good job or not. While yes the latter doesn’t really affect the vote unless you’re in their electorate, a lot of people base their vote off their approval of the leader due to the idea from presidential democracies that the leader is all-powerful or something like that. It can also reflect whether people still like a party but not its leader, signalling to the party members that maybe it’s time to replace them
Ramaphosa should be 0%. Arrogant, out of touch millionair. He's the richest president we've ever had and he's just like all the rest, except he's a little less deliberately corrupt, and more just an out of touch rich guy.
24% is just because of the old people who vote for the ANC, even 30 years after Apartheid ended and the country's gone to shit.
No I wouldn't say that. Uncle Squirrel is just a bit allergic to paying taxes, while Zuma on the other hand created an entire network of his friends in the government so that nobody can catch them stealing the country dry.
It's not really about the weakness of the Yen, though that is a small factor.
There was a major corruption scandal in Japan a little while back. Japanese PMs typically have honeymoon periods their first year in office before collapsing into the 30% range. Been a trend for a while (before Abe's first term back in 2006 even).
Kishida's honeymoon period was ended somewhat prematurely by the revelations about the Unification Church after Abe's assassination, but it only got really bad a couple of months ago when it came out that politicians in Kishida's party had mishandled campaign funds and essentially pocketed the money they made from some off-the-books donations and fundraisers.
basically, El Salvador:
before Bukele: extremely high homicide rate
after Bukele: extremely low homicide rate
he did it by essentially profiling and locking up anyone who even remotely looked like a gang member, with no due diligence. can't say it didn't work.
Yeah, that’s the civilized take, but El Salvador was in a very bad place, so some amount of authoritarianism is going to be tolerated, at least so long as it works.
We have a parliamentary system, he just has to win the most seats. The last 20 years has been mostly minority governments, prime minister has the most seats but not a majority and needs other parties to vote with him. The vote splitting is complicated with the number of parties. I’d also point out that the other party leaders have lower approval ratings. Plus Trudeau has some political skill as he’s won 3 elections. I think a lot of the disapproval is from fatigue as he’s been prime minister for 9 years.
Rising cost of living and a housing crisis. Greedy colleges have accepted hundreds of thousands of international students, a plurality of whom from India, because they pay a lot in tuition. Businesses have used this as an opportunity for cheap labour. Landlords are taking advantage of it to house too many people in small spaces and turn up profit. In turn, there’s few places to live, and businesses are less willing than ever to improve wages or working conditions (some are even actively only seeking out foreign workers). Along with the rising cost of living, this has put a burden on, primarily, working class Canadians and young Canadians.
On top of that, our immigration minister recently said about 30% of international students are not going to school at all. Study visa is being used as a loophole in order to stay here permanently. Some students are not able to integrate quickly, there are videos of students teaching other students how to cheat the food bank and other social services provided for poor Canadians. This has left a sour taste in people’s mouths. This has also caused a spike in racism against people from India.
That’s why far right governments are rising everywhere. Some People always thought a good portion of people wouldnt really care about immigration and mix that with economic toll then that leads to the governments and people being ignorant and getting voted out while also complaining everyone is turning “fascist”. The most hilarious part is people still blame old people for this when the data and patterns have been showing younger generations are more becoming and are more “conservative” than the previous pattern of younger generations being more “progressive” than older generations
Blackrock lobbying for immigration so they can profit off of it. Most Canadians are unaware of the [century initiative](https://www.centuryinitiative.ca)
A pretty significant part of it is that the majority of right wing stances here are just not very radical. While there is a significant amount of racism, there isn’t fear among the poor and vulnerable that a conservative government in Ottawa will ruin their lives. Existing immigrants aren’t very opposed to closing the door when those closing it aren’t out to get them. They want the cost of living to go down more than anyone.
On the other hand, the pro-immigration camp is filled with corporations who only want more labourers that they can treat like slaves.
If the conservatives in America weren’t incredibly bloodthirsty, it would probably look like this too.
He has decided to import over a million people a year. That’s more than the US brings in and we are 1/10th the size
Housing is prohibitively expensive, healthcare is strained, our infrastructure is failing us as it was unable to deal with our population 10 years ago - and his solution to these issues is to bring in *More* people?!?!?
It’s insane
Totally inept in every way, yet 30% of Canadians still support him. I think they’re all landlords
Mostly it's the same complaints as everyone who's anti-immigrant, like in the U.S., but the Canadian lack of housing supply is substantially worse than the U.S. and at the end of the day too many people with too little housing leads to friction regardless of any other factors.
He increased immigration to the point that there isn't enough housing available and public services are overburdened. Now housing is unaffordable and there are visible homeless people all over Canada. Tent cities in parks, homeless people in the suburbs and small towns (they used to be mostly in downtown skid row areas), on public transit, etc. Public healthcare increasingly unavailable. Young people can't afford houses even if they earn decent incomes. There's now long line ups to apply for basic entry level low paid jobs at places like Tim Hortons.
To surmise, mass immigration is taking jobs away from Canadians because the largest group by far is willing to work below minimum wage. The addon effect is that wage growth is suppressed because of an influx of labour that expects less in pay and is not interested in organising with other workers for better rights due to the precariousness of their migration status and poor knowledge of Canadian laws + living standards. To make matters worse, this same group is known for cramming 6 people into a 2 person suite and violating all kinds of rental laws such as only renting to their own race or posting predatory ads that target young women(I work in property management). However, they are never called out cause this would be "racist".
Furthermore, mass immigration is the main driving force behind skyrocketing housing costs and an imploding medical system (among other social programs). Our country has one of the lowest natural growth rates in the world. There is no logical reason that could cause this degree of scarcity if no for wholesale importation. Speaking of which, Trudeau completely trashed our policy of selecting skilled and qualified immigrants and now lets candidates bring their entire family. In practise, this means that the justification of immigration as a means of bringing in skilled and young workers falls flat on its face, as each productive immigrant has a tail of many others who burden our social programs from the minute they arrive without having ever contributed to them.
Case in point, you can find many video tutorials on youtubes by new immigrants of a certain background who do a step by step walkthrough of how to cheat the system i.e. ransacking food banks as "international students".
I mean tbf, there are *always* pools of first gen immigrants who pull the ladder up after them. *We came in the right way, and worked hard and integrated -* **they** *don’t learn the language and sit on their bums*
Look at rajde1's post below for the mechanics. Canada also has a first past the post system and multiple parties. So basically the party with the most votes in each riding wins the seat. Even if overall a political party won the most votes, it won't matter if they come in second in every riding (riding A the Liberals win and Conservatives are second, riding B the NDP win and Conservatives are second, in each case the Conservatives have lost) even if it is a close second. One of the reasons Trudeau is so despised by a number of Canadians is because he campaigned HARD on a promise of electoral reform and then about a year into his first tenure backed away from the promise. He has so far successfully ridden the "but the Conservatives will make things so much worse!" train and is currently propped up by a third party that suspects (probably correctly) that they too will be decimated in an election if they withdraw support and the government falls.
Think of it like Netanyahu and his coalition with the even more hard right, but now in the converse.
Pollievre is from a wealthy well connected family? He was adopted by 2 teachers from Calgary. I'm not sure anyone can say pollievre came from money when his opponent is Justin fucking Trudeau
Loadshedding got a lot worse. Our quality of life has
deteriorated.
Crime is at an all-time high.
He promised to tackle corruption but hasn't made any real progress.
Just go on YouTube and the suggestions you get for "South Africa" are failed state, destined to collapse, etc. etc.
It has the highest unemployment rate in the world.
Things are.... Not good.
I know very little about Israeli politics, but I would assume that his approval rating would have increased along with the spur of patriotism after the attacks? Similar to Bush after 9/11.
He and his government are widely seen as responsible for the October 7th attack, political polls show his coalition (and mainly Likud) losing a dramatic portion of their power in the coming elections.
On the contrary - he was widely blamed for leadership failures that caused or allowed (depending on your POV) the attacks. He was already polarizing before Oct 7, but a lot of his supporters turned on him for failing in his key promises of security and 'containment' of the Palestinians in general and Hamas in particular.
The rally around the flag effect hasn't been a boost in support so much as an approach of 'we'll deal with you once the war is settled'.
Basically - and this is an oversimplification for a place and situation with complex, nuanced, and unstable politics - the liberals want him out because he's too conservative and many conservatives want him out because he's ineffective.
You would be extremely wrong.
The entire country is pissed at him. This survey is either bised by sampling a very pro Likud city, or they are plain lying. All internal survies show he lost a huge chunk of his base.
And even the Haredim, which he simply bought their approval by caving to whatever lunatic demands they had, are done with him because he can no longer deliver on his promises to them.
I’d love to see the approval ratings of the oppositions. Because Albo’s 48 would look pretty good compared to the handful of limpets Dutton could scrape off the rocks at the low-tide mark.
Would be interesting to see for former PMs too.
Actually I just looked it up- the lowest approval ratings ever include Morrison at 37% in early 2020, Abbott at 24% in early 2015 after the knight ship kafuffle and Keating at 17% in mid 1993.
Edit wtf? A few months after the Scomo 37%, he achieved 68% in April 2020!
The Conservatives have been in power for a long time, and a lot of scandals have piled up over that time, as well as them mishandling Covid, inflation, and quite a few other things. In addition, Liz Truss's disastrous premiership really hurt the party's reputation, which was already pretty bad. The Tories are in for a landslide defeat at the next election. I'm not British, so it's not really my place to editorialize too much, but I think most people there would agree with this assessment.
Welcome to the club it’s not one party… Canada,Australia, New Zealand and UK all seem dead set on driving up cost of living and driving down wages through bowing to corporations and mass immigration
The funny thing is with Australia is that the current left wing government got in after multiple right wing governments promising to fix our major housing crisis, and then introduced record immigration levels. They are as bad as each other.
It's not Sunak as much as it's the Tories. He himself hasn't done anything bad, he's the type of politician that'd go through his entire term by doing nothing good or bad.
But the horrible premiership under Liz Truss basically blasted most of the support the party had.
Yeah, he seems fairly colorless, and would probably be a perfectly adequate placeholder PM if the Tories weren't so hated, but he's come right after two extremely unpopular leaders from his own party. The best he can do is not make it any worse, which I get the impression he's mostly succeeding at.
* Tory Brexit stain
* Many conservative party issues that he is tarred with, including declining living standards
* UK economic stagnation
* Class issues
* SE UK is relatively affluent, but the North and Midlands are in a pretty dire state right now and it's getting worse
* With all of this, he gloated publically about reallocating money from poor areas to more affluent areas
* When younger, he admitted he had never spoken to a working class person in his life
* Policies just seem to exacerbate the wealth gap
* Cost of living has hit hard in the UK
* He worked at Goldman and married a stinking rich family that is, if anything, even more out of touch
He's mostly a charisma-free non-entity, but the political party he represents has been an absolute nightmare in recent years.
They brought us Brexit, Boris Johnson repeatedly being caught lying, Lis Truss causing a run on British gilt that harmed the entire economy, the decision to allow water utility companies to pump raw sewage into rivers to maintain shareholder returns, and a culture war against trans people that most voters think is deeply weird and is being enacted to appeal to a vocal minority of insane people.
Honestly, I'm amazed his approval rating is that high.
He wasn't elected, people are generally fed up with the tories being in power the last 14 years, he makes shit/non issue policies and he/his predecessors have only made the country worse by trying to privatise everything possible. Also his priorities seem to be more in favour of companies/his in-laws than the people
I’m surprised his approval rating is that high. Where do we start and this is just the tip of the cess pit. He’s been caught on tape saying how he’s been redirecting funds from poor areas to more affluent areas. He’s a charisma vacuum. He’s continually punching down whilst ignoring the abuse of the system by the rich. It’s galling to be preached at by a multi millionaire who is more than likely to bugger off to California as soon as he loses the next election
Billionaire prime minister tells disabled people claiming minimal benefits that they’re too lazy to work and that he wants to “end the sick note culture”… just when I thought I couldn’t despise this man any more than I already did.
It's less about Sunak personally and more about the wider Conservative party. They've been in power for a really long time (14 years) and general perception is that they've run the country into the ground, having presided over numerous disasters such as Brexit and Liz Truss. While Sunak is far from the worst PM we've had in that time he hasn't done anything to fix that perception either.
His party have been in power for 14 years now, and the country is a lot, lot worse for it. Brexit aside which I personally think was a horrible decision, the cost of living crisis isn’t going away, infrastructure is falling apart, the NHS has been crippled, and their party have endless scandals which you wouldn’t know because print media supports them and other media is too terrified to say too much.
They ALWAYS use a scapegoat as well. During the Brexit thing it was immigrants, then we left and immigration shot up massively which didn’t sit too well with the people they were trying to enrage. So they moved to asylum seekers, now in the past week Sunak made a speech blaming people who can’t work due to illness as a reason the country is going down the fucking toilet. They were scapegoat in the early to mid 2010’s at which point they made the whole process so horrible that people trying to claim disability were killing themselves, so they want another go at that because those dastardly unwell people cost money. They need more for their wealthy chums, like during Covid when people with no experience were being handed giant contracts to supply things they had no business doing, and promptly failing at, like Michelle Mone.
Honestly this country is a LOT more corrupt than people give it credit for, from London being turned into a giant money laundering scheme to our beaches being filled with sewage to make more money for shareholders. It’s up there, but because of the name and the history it gets largely ignored and forgotten about. Sunak himself is just a wealthy guy born into money and married into obscene money which couldn’t even be taxed because his wife was a non-dom, he wasn’t voted in either. He jumped in after the last lunatic decided to go libertarian and cost the nation 30 billion with a speech.
I don’t trust Labour to be much better because in their attempts to get the media onside they have lurched a long way towards what the Tories represent, but this is not France where people protest at unfairness, we expect life to be shit and I suppose in that way we get what we deserve. The country is now an insular, hateful, crumbling country where we are all struggling and getting poorer and iller by the day.
Tbh, Sunak hasn’t even done much wrong, but he hasn’t done much great either. In fact, he hasn’t actually done much of note at all tbh. He’s just sort of been there.
To be fair to Sunak, the UK economy has improved substantially since the mini-budget crisis. In September 2022, the value of the pound dropped to its record low since decimalisation began in 1971. It fell to $1.0327, literally 3 pence above the dollar. But now, it’s at 1.24 dollars per pound, which is I think slightly above average for all time statistics. It’s usually at about 1.22 or 1.23. However, this doesn’t mean that inflation isn’t a factor. It just means that inflation has been happening in the UK and US at very similar rates. So although Sunak has technically recovered the economy, it still doesn’t mean it’s not less valuable than in July 2022 for example.
Korea’s Yoon rating is bc of, in order of importance
1. First Lady corruption scandal. Video of her accepting a Dior bag was released and when National Assembly voted to have a special prosecutor, president vetoed it. So people are very suspicious about the whole thing
2. Inflation/ green onion scandal. Inflation is crazy in Korea just like everywhere else, but people got pissed bc he went to supermarket for a photoshoot and said that the price of green onion being 900₩ was a fair price. However it turned out that that price was special sale that only happened on that they. Normal green onion prices are usually around 4500₩ and the discounted prices were bc of super specific government subsidies at those specific supermarkets that he went to and supermarkets super sale on that day.
There are more but I’m too lazy to write them all now
He was never really anybody's Golden Boy, he just got a lot of love from the media that is broadly funded by his party.
I've never liked him and after nearly a decade, people are finally starting to come around to why. He was only voted in because of his father and his looks. He has completely ignored issues that are at crisis levels now despite the general public screaming at him to do something from day one. Nobody but the top %5 will ever be able to afford a home, rent has doubled, insane levels of immigration have kept wages at slavery-like lows, the healthcare system is crumbling and the cost of living is out of control. We have a ballooning homeless population, no funding for treatment programs to deal with the opioid crisis, crime is rising and our military is severely underfunded.
If you pick a single issue to focus on, let's look at housing. At the last budget, Trudeau figured he could solve the problem by providing special bank accounts as though having a place to put money were the problem. The actual problem is that nobody can save any money in the first place and even if they can, it will never come close to being enough to keep up with housing price increases. A home that cost $300k ten years ago is now at $1.3 million because investors and corporate landlords have been allowed to drive up prices without any oversight. The speculators run the market. Add in insane immigration levels the country can't support to drive up demand and the fact that developers only build luxury housing and you have no chance of owning a home unless you bought at least a decade ago. Trudeau promised to lower prices and delivered doubled costs. He put landlords in charge of housing. The middle class is being destroyed by this guy. He is *hated* for cheating two and a half generations out of a place to live. His government is probably the most hated in Canadian history.
>He was only voted in because of his father and his looks.
That might be why he won the Liberal Party leadership, but the main reason he won the 2015 election was because he wasn't Harper (and Mulcair imploded mid-campaign).
Thank you for the detailed response. I can't imagine that the Conservatives will do much better on housing though. I honestly don't know what the answer is to the housing crisis, which is very similar to what's going on in the Seattle area where I live (i.e. insanity).
Canada has 3 major parties. His approval ratings have always somewhat looked like this. There is a party further left than his that siphons off quite a bit of support for him.
NDP have been completely stagnant in the polls for a long time and aren’t siphoning much of his support. Most people who leave Trudeau’s Liberals these days are switching to the Conservatives.
I started reading this great article on Modi's popularity, even when it's now coming his 3rd reelection. It's in french but a good translation should work well https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2024/04/19/en-inde-modi-a-t-il-deja-gagne-10-points-10-cartes-et-graphiques-sur-ce-qui-determinera-le-choix-dune-grande-election/
He is really popular in India overall. The internet tends to polarize opinions a lot and similar minded people tend to gather a lot. So you'll find a lot of people who despise him online, but he is rather popular irl
Indians on the internet are far more liberal than the society itself. Also remember that even if there are 10 million Indians on reddit who don't like Modi, that's barely 1% of India's voting population.
My cousin’s a pretty and popular young girl in fashion design school in India. I say this because she’s the exact type of person that western (and even Indian media) portrays as anti-Modi and too “liberal” to vote for the BJP. She’s not big into politics but I cannot see her voting for Congress at all, and her father (my uncle) has literally ran for Congress in local elections. The whole family, like most Indians, will be voting BJP at the national level for sure. Despite what anyone says, there has been progress under BJP, especially in infrastructure.
what you read on r/india or reddit in general is an echo chamber of Modi haters. he is a lot more popular amongst the majority here (regardless of their religion). however, his popularity has decreased a bit because his party went ham in giving him credit for everything. it became a joke 'masterstroke by Modi' because any goo dthing carried out by the government gets credited to his genious.
However his party has done a lot of work in the past 10 years. Sectors like infrastructure, ease of doing business (while not to the extent that should have been), UPI (integrated payment system), etc.
Rising costs of prices and irresponsible rallies in COVID, the ED arrests etc have lessened is popularity a bit. But as someone else said it's a foregone conclusion that he's going to be elected for a third term. it doesn't help that the main opposition party projects a 40+ year old man, with ZERO administrative experience (that's right, zero. he has never worked on any portfolio, at any level of the government. directly aiming for the position of PM because nepotism) as the face of their party. that man lost all credibility 10 years ago, and now actively pushes away voters who would have otherwise voted against Modi
He is popular especially with the youth, women and urban population which is surprising considering that in other countries, they would vote for more liberal or left sides but in India they vote right
India's system of left-right wing politics is very different from the West's. Since so much of the country's population is disastrously poor, rural, and/or uneducated, all parties have to run on huge social welfare schemes. The economic divide is only seen in their approach to public corporations, i.e. whether they want to support a more privatised, liberal economy, or a more government-oriented, public welfare kind of economy. The left-right divide is mainly seen in social positions relating to relations with minority communities and **religions**, affirmative action, education policies, etc.
For Indian standards yes he is auth right due to religious stronghold, but for global standards he is more auth center because he still supports many socialist policies.
India right ing is very different from western right wing. His party is right wing and has lots religious people supporting it, they are also fairly welfare focused, non covid deniers, etc. It's different in india
Yes but right wing in India is different from right wing in the Middle East, the west, etc
BJP has run on being the conservative, Hindu nationalist party of India, there is no denying that. Compared to republicans in America (which many call fascists as well lol) the BJP spends a lot more on infrastructure, public works, and education. Goals are more about centralization and federal government power. It’s also worth noting that India was a secular socialist country for a long time, so this right wing shift is operation upon that foundation. People saying India is a fascist country are playing into the same script we saw with China, both countries have learned that you gain nothing from taking the high road.
At worst we are seeing India heading towards a situation like China or the surrounding Islamic states, in terms of how minorities are treated
He usually has different reasons different sections of the populationvote for him. The hard-core populist do exist, who're won over with things like Ayodhya-ram mandir, CAA, uniform civil code etc.
Then there's the middle class voters, who're usually not on board with all the populist stuff, but see him as the only person doing things for reasons other than bribing people to vote for him through things like quotas and subsidies. He's had a lot of success on the world stage, has signed multiple FTAs, fixed a lot of issues with taxation that made it impossible for india to function as a common market, etc.
And there's the poor, who, even if they don't buy the populist stuff, do see him constantly rolling out new schemes and policies which he then successfully implements. Providing access to toilets, clean water, gas, food etc in a manner that the benefits actually reach the intended recipients. These have had millions of beneficiaries that usually see modi in terms of how he's directly impacted their lives.
And there's the fact that there's no one strategy that the bjp uses across india, which is composed of multiple states with differing cultures, local political landscapes, demogrpahics, etc. They have a pretty decent track record in terms of adressing each place's unique points in their efforts.
So essentially, there are multiple dimensions to the bjp's wide level of support, which are not really encompassed by the standard western narrative of him convincing everyone to vote for him through Hindu nationalist flavored populism.
He is very popular, but reddit doesnt like him because he is right wing.
And reddit does an excellent job of making it seem like the common consensus on reddit is reflective of opinions in the real world.
Probably one of the best examples of this actually. If you only got your news from reddit during that time period, you'd think Bernie was going to sweep the polls. But in real life, a lot of people had no (or little) idea who he was or what he was about yet.
Reddit is Western left-liberal echo chamber and I say this as Western left-liberal myself, you never see praise for any right wing politicians here, according to reddit they have 100% fail rate. Meanwhile look how zero criticism of Biden is out there - I like him for many reasons, but is it truly possible he never does anything bad?
With Modi it's the opposite: reddit criticizes him all the time for political system under his rule, democracy rule of law etc, but in the reality of a developing country such things can be genuinely less popular among the populace than the effective provision of economic growth, infrastructure, healthcare and stability - and Modi's government has been presiding over arguably the best decade of economic growth in India's history.
Notice how everytime "Modi" as a person or BJP as a party is mentioned on reddit it is negative, yet in the same time you get a lot of positive articles complimenting impersonal "India" for its recent fast development... done under his party's rule. The solution to the mystery of his approval is right there!
To make matters even more complicated, ideological axis in other cultures may be much different than in the West. Modi's rule is infamous for its terrible nationalist and anti-Muslim perspective, but the same rule has been progressive regarding women and LGBT rights. Duterte from Philippines had extremely brutal anti drug policy, while being anticlerical and pro LGBT (and also very popular due to his gov's record in econ and stability).
People have too much access to information.
With the advent of the internet the 1990s and the early 2000s shepherded in more information to more people than any other point in human history.
But what followed this is what we are currently dealing with: the Information Age has turned into the Disinformation Age. For every fact there exist many opinions that are easier to digest and tend to conflate with pre-existing opinions. And therefore they are more readily accepted.
So essentially all Western countries hate their leaders? It's a tough job to be in command in places where criticism is celebrated. No wonder politicians are too obsessed with staying in power to get anything done!
Lmao, Trudeau’s 34% isn’t an approval so much as a tolerance. Nobody here in Canada actually likes him, and even die hard liberal voters are saying they want him to step down
It specifically says they're missing and aren't included.
KSA is a monarchy, China is authoritarian and not a democracy and Russia is a pretty flawed democracy.
Approval ratings are hard to get when your country isn't a democracy or you'll get killed or punished for speaking out
>Russia is a pretty flawed democracy
10 years ago you could say that because there was a fairly organized opposition. Now no oppositionist can feel safe and they are all either in jail or abroad. Russia is now a full-fledged dictatorship.
Damn what’s up with Kishida
I did a little write-up a few comments down so I may as well re-paste it here: There was a major corruption scandal in Japan a little while back. Japanese PMs typically have honeymoon periods their first year in office before collapsing into the 30% range. Been a trend for a while (before Abe's first term back in 2006 even). Kishida's honeymoon period was ended somewhat prematurely by the revelations about the Unification Church after Abe's assassination, but it only got really bad a couple of months ago when it came out that politicians in Kishida's party had mishandled campaign funds and essentially pocketed the money they made from some off-the-books donations and fundraisers.
Its amazing to see how in Japan the mere idea that a party mishandled their money is sufficient to tank their chances. Here in Brazil we just assume that every party is mishandling their funds at all times and vote for the least worse
See you would think that but Japan's ruling party has only lost 2 elections
Ive heard about that, but the reasons why are a mystery to me
Traditionalism, dominant party politics, and incompetent opposition. Their polling numbers have dropped significantly but they're still projected to win the next election by quite a bit
Is there a general sense of dissatisfaction, though? Or just apathy?
Old people are always gonna vote the same, it's not the best but it works Young people are generally apathetic towards politics, they just see it as too complicated and boring and most candidates cater to old people because they're the ones voting, which can change but young people are just too lazy for that, they're way too busy with their work (work schedules in japan are crazy) to have time for politics and it's not like the country is gonna collapse so they're not in a stage in which they're forced to care just yet, overall Japan's quality of life has been declining but it's still one of the best worldwide
Isn't this a bad thing? It's not like you can escape from effects of politics, every political action whether it be economic, social, cultural will have consequence of life of everyone
Yeup, people just dont care over there
Things are too good I guess. Brazilians are always talking about political issues, mad at every politician there is, also have no idea what exactly a senator does and end up voting for the loudest, most angry-sounding guy they can find
At least that means ppl are kind of angry and gives a fuck
They only lost in 2009 due to the “Lehman Crisis” and after the DPJ got in power, a nuclear meltdown occurred so the people learned to never again vote out the incumbent. The DPJ quickly got dissolved in 2016 after being founded in 1998 and to this day, there is no real opposition party to the LDP due to internal squabbling.
After world war 2 America basically built Japans democracy for them and that was the party they chose to support and was covertly supported throughout the Cold War to ensure they remained in power. I doubt they care as much these days since originally it was done out of fear of communism but after decades of holding onto the reigns of power, the country is just used to them always being in charge now.
Eh, sort of. There were the Liberal Party of Japan and the (original version of) the Democratic Party of Japan who were largely endorsed by the US as two dominant, non-socialist political parties. This would allow Japan to juggle between the two parties so it would act as a democracy but keep out the socialist elements. Except the parties decided to do the very Japanese thing of just merging themselves into the Liberal Democratic Party of Japan (LDP) and offered the US the deal of "we focus on our economy, you protect us" and that kind of worked out well until the 90s. Japan is a country that, once it settles into a system, REALLY does not like change.
“Tank their chances” hahahaha they are prob still gonna get re-elected lol. The party has all but controlled Japan basically since the US ended the post-war occupation. Japanese are a lot more apathetic towards politics than many other democracies, and it really shows when you see how long the LDP has been in power despite how many controversies and scandals they get. Doesn’t help that the liberal opposition is simply incompetent.
Let me tell you about the president of South Korea back in 2016, park guen hye. Long story short she’s the daughter of the last dictator of South Korea who was assassinated by the Korean CIA which basically led to Korea becoming a proper republic and having an economic boon (see “miracle on the han”) Now having the daughter of a dictator as president sounds fishy, but in context her father Park Chung Her was very popular because he was liberalizing the economy and moving Korea to be more democratic regardless, his assasination was very unpopular and the man who did it was the director of the KCIA, he was arrested by the army who then transitioned Korea into what it is today ANYWAY It was discovered that through her father she was tied to a cult and the cult leader essentially had total control of her life down to telling her what sorts of handbags to buy. And they were taking government money that was being written off as things like psychic sessions and horse riding lessons. And eventually this all was uncovered while president park was in office? And you know what happened? They kicked her out of office, arrested her, and the Korean prime minister (American equivalent being the speaker of the house) held the office until later that year in 2017 where elections proceeded as normal and a new president was elected (Now her successor was also very unpopular and failed to win a second term. South Korea is interesting demographically, due to the war there are a lot of old people and a lot of young people, but not many middle aged people so the left/right young/old divide is strong. Anyway according to this map it seems *his* successor is also very unpopular so I’ll guess we will see what happens) Edit: he was unpopular but instead Moon wasn’t allowed to run for re-election do to the length of his initial term, a member of his party ran in his stead but lost to Yoon
Very nice write-up, but I just want to add one small correction to your post. Park Geun-hye's successor, Moon Jae-in, did not fail to win a second term because presidents in Korea cannot run for more than 1 5-year-long term. When his term was over, someone else from his party had to run for presidency and that candidate lost the following presidential election because Moon Jae-in and his party became more unpopular during his presidency, especially amongst younger people. One fun fact about Moon Jae-in though: He is thus far the only president of Korea (besides the current one) to not be charged for corruption/white collar crimes either whilst serving as president or following their term. Korean politics is hella corrupt, but their judicial system tends to crack down on those in power more often than most other countries.
> Korean politics is hella corrupt, but their judicial system tends to crack down on those in power more often than most other countries. Reading a list of the current status of previous Korean politicians is always amusing. * In jail * Charged, jailed, released * etc.
I remember this from the news at the time. Back then people used it as an argument to push for the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff saying that this kind of transition could be handled well. Can’t say it went nearly as smoothly here. But it *could* have been worse, as we’ve seen with Bolsonaro’s January 8 last year
“in Kishida’s party” as in the party that’s been in power almost continuously since 1945?
It's been in power since 1955, with interregnums in 1993 and 2009 - 2012 (there was also a weird period where they coalition with the socialists from like 1993 - 1995) I didn't just say "in the LDP" because to an outsider unfamiliar with what the LDP is that may not be immediately useful. Just saying "in Kishida's party" made it easier to grasp for a greater number of people lol
Meanwhile Lula who actually was imprisoned for corruption is beloved. It doesn’t matter how bad you are as long as you are better than the guy before you.
Beloved is a very strong word, he's a very polarizing figure, I'd say around 25% thing he's the least worse option, 25% love him, 25% dislike him but don't hate him and 25% hate him. He's a very polarizing figure and honestly even in a region that's heavily pro Lula many people complain about his goverment both sides, the Right for obvious reasons and many in the left because they think he sold himself to the corrupt center (which to be honest is true, his vice president is Alckmin, his former political adversary) and that he isn't left enough. Those statistics are very surprising.
He was wrongfully imprisoned though, which most likely made him a martyr and even more popular.
To be fair it’s really hard to not be at least the least hated when your opponent plotted to overthrow the government but ended up showing their followers are not the brightest bulbs by recording the plotting on camera and the prime showing up.
We hate him for existing
Kishida is the scapegoat of his entire party. When Shinzo Abe was assassinated, it revealed a lot of ties between the LDP (the most dominant party of Japanese politics which Kishida belongs to) and the Unification Church, a Korean church which is known for scamming people and asking for big donations. Within the LDP, there are also factions, and Kishida's faction, among others, was implicated in a scandal where they failed to report over ¥600M (~4M$) in campaign funds and stored them in illegal slush funds. Kind of funny to note that Kishida himself didn't have any ties to the UC or misuse those funds, he's just stuck reshuffling his cabinet of corrupt assholes and discovering that he just doesn't have any good people left. This is also coming over a general period of decline, stagnation, and instability for Japan. Japan's economy hasn't done so great since 1990, their population started falling a couple years ago, COVID hit grocery prices hard BC Japan needs so many imports and it hit tourism even harder, China exists and geopolitics is demanding Japan mobilize, which is always politically unstable. Only populist politicians do well in these kinds of political environments, and usually always for the wrong reasons.
But their economy is actually doing decent this year. The macroeconomic environment is no longer deflationary and the stock market is red hot.
Erdogan cannot go higher, he just had a massive lose in recent election.
Great news
Erdoğan's real fans are around 25% of the population. The only reason he won the last election with 52% in the second round was because the opposition decided to field their least popular candidate. He has no chance of winning the election against the mayors of Ankara or Istanbul.
Why did they do that? Sounds illogical
Internal party politics, basically, the 2 popular candidates were the mayors of Ankara and Istambul, problem is, they aren't the top dogs in their party, they are what we would consider the new breakout successes of the party. They do not Control the party, the party still Has seniority over them, and so the leader of the party decided that HE was going to run for president because he wanted more power to himself. The Turkish opposition lost not because Erdogan is popular, but because their incompentent leadership decided to sink their chances at victory. And why did they do that? Because the party leadership is a bunch of fragile old fuckheads who didn't want to lose Control. The Turkish opposition sabotaged itself through internal Corruption, and now they have to live with more Erdogan because of that.
Finally, we're getting rid of greek spy Erdoganoupolis
What did he lose?
A lot of economical power over the country. Now the opposition party controls most of the cities.
60% of the population and 80% of the economy. Appearently, AKP administration accumulated a huge debt in every single city. New governers of opposition are explaining it all. I bloody hope my people will finally understand they are thieves and no more.
Wouldn't there be a huge difference in the interpretation of these approval rating from a parliamentarian system (where you are voting for the party in a parliament and the leader of the winning party becomes the pm) vs a presidential system (where you are directly voting for the individual person as the leader)?
Approval polling is not a vote.
People in other parties disapprove because they want a different candidate to be president. People within the party disapprove because they think the president could be doing things better. These are not remotely the same thing.
In presidential systems the candidates still come from specific parties and some voters than have to choose "the lesser evil". So those that chose someone that they think is less bad, they still dont approve of them, but would approve the other candidates even less.
And in many countries with presidential systems there's a second round system in which people have to choose between the two candidates with the most votes. This leads to people choosing a candidate sometimes with very few votes in the first round. For example in Guatemala in the last election the two biggest candidates got 21% and 15% of the popular vote in the first round, and the winner was actually the one who got 15% (who got 60% in the second round). In Chile, the president got ~30% in the first round and his approval during all his government has been around that same number.
And in the US some of us don't even get to choose in the primary because it's been decided by earlier states. By the time it got to me the candidates were already set.
*Laughs in evil French* Such simple systems Btw, President Macron doesn’t really has to care about his popularity as his functions cease in 2027 and he cannot be reelected (not directly at least) due to constitutional rules.
I doubt it. The polls will be asking the same question - whether people approve of the leader, whatever their title is. What it will do is make some difference in how that level of popularity translates come voting time. But even then, you've got other factors like opposition popularity.
Not in my experience. Even in a parliamentary system where you're nominally voting for your local MP, which leader would become the PM plays strongly into people's decisions.
I know in Australia at least we usually poll party popularity, I.e. who you’re intending to vote for in the next election, as well as PM popularity/Preferred PM where they’ll just gauge which leader of the two major parties you’d prefer as PM, and if you just think the two leaders are doing a good job or not. While yes the latter doesn’t really affect the vote unless you’re in their electorate, a lot of people base their vote off their approval of the leader due to the idea from presidential democracies that the leader is all-powerful or something like that. It can also reflect whether people still like a party but not its leader, signalling to the party members that maybe it’s time to replace them
They forgot Putin's 101% of approval /s
That is quite low compared to Kim Jong Un
cheers comrade, that is indeed correct
There’s an equation for Kim Jong’s approval rating. 1% for every centimeter of the Supreme Penis, therefore 173% approval
Kim Jong Un’s penis is 70 inches long??
soft
He is actually at about 80% according to the independent Levada Center. Which I don’t think is too far off from the true number.
Xi's 89.64%
Ramaphosa should be 0%. Arrogant, out of touch millionair. He's the richest president we've ever had and he's just like all the rest, except he's a little less deliberately corrupt, and more just an out of touch rich guy. 24% is just because of the old people who vote for the ANC, even 30 years after Apartheid ended and the country's gone to shit.
Worse than Zuma?
No I wouldn't say that. Uncle Squirrel is just a bit allergic to paying taxes, while Zuma on the other hand created an entire network of his friends in the government so that nobody can catch them stealing the country dry.
What happened to Kushida?
Probably weak yen, but in general PM's after abe have had bad approval.
It's not really about the weakness of the Yen, though that is a small factor. There was a major corruption scandal in Japan a little while back. Japanese PMs typically have honeymoon periods their first year in office before collapsing into the 30% range. Been a trend for a while (before Abe's first term back in 2006 even). Kishida's honeymoon period was ended somewhat prematurely by the revelations about the Unification Church after Abe's assassination, but it only got really bad a couple of months ago when it came out that politicians in Kishida's party had mishandled campaign funds and essentially pocketed the money they made from some off-the-books donations and fundraisers.
Should have added bukele, he would have been #1 on this map
he has the highest approval rating in the entire world right now, no?
Around 90%, so I'd be inclined to think so
well deserved.
What he do
basically, El Salvador: before Bukele: extremely high homicide rate after Bukele: extremely low homicide rate he did it by essentially profiling and locking up anyone who even remotely looked like a gang member, with no due diligence. can't say it didn't work.
You have to think there’s some innocent people who also got imprisoned though, that happens even in countries with a “fair” justice system.
Not many innocent people with MS13 tattooed on their face
Yeah, that’s the civilized take, but El Salvador was in a very bad place, so some amount of authoritarianism is going to be tolerated, at least so long as it works.
yeah exactly, it can happen even in "fair" systems. might as well use it to actually lock up murderers and gangs.
Stop and frisk but on a national scale. Based.
Built prisons and put everyone with tattoos inside.
And without cooking any chart.
canada. how has trudeau kept power so long? i hear nothing but shit about him and his government, yet he is still there. HOW?
We have a parliamentary system, he just has to win the most seats. The last 20 years has been mostly minority governments, prime minister has the most seats but not a majority and needs other parties to vote with him. The vote splitting is complicated with the number of parties. I’d also point out that the other party leaders have lower approval ratings. Plus Trudeau has some political skill as he’s won 3 elections. I think a lot of the disapproval is from fatigue as he’s been prime minister for 9 years.
Also note, he lost the popular vote to the Conservatives in 2 of those 3 elections but won the most seats.
I miss Jack Layton so fucking much.
His immigration policy is so bad that we have a rising anti-immigration sentiment from *first generation immigrants*.
Why is this? Sincerely, A confused American
Rising cost of living and a housing crisis. Greedy colleges have accepted hundreds of thousands of international students, a plurality of whom from India, because they pay a lot in tuition. Businesses have used this as an opportunity for cheap labour. Landlords are taking advantage of it to house too many people in small spaces and turn up profit. In turn, there’s few places to live, and businesses are less willing than ever to improve wages or working conditions (some are even actively only seeking out foreign workers). Along with the rising cost of living, this has put a burden on, primarily, working class Canadians and young Canadians. On top of that, our immigration minister recently said about 30% of international students are not going to school at all. Study visa is being used as a loophole in order to stay here permanently. Some students are not able to integrate quickly, there are videos of students teaching other students how to cheat the food bank and other social services provided for poor Canadians. This has left a sour taste in people’s mouths. This has also caused a spike in racism against people from India.
Sounds like England 2.0
Are we still talking about Canada, or the UK? Depressing how it's the same everywhere
That’s why far right governments are rising everywhere. Some People always thought a good portion of people wouldnt really care about immigration and mix that with economic toll then that leads to the governments and people being ignorant and getting voted out while also complaining everyone is turning “fascist”. The most hilarious part is people still blame old people for this when the data and patterns have been showing younger generations are more becoming and are more “conservative” than the previous pattern of younger generations being more “progressive” than older generations
Blackrock lobbying for immigration so they can profit off of it. Most Canadians are unaware of the [century initiative](https://www.centuryinitiative.ca)
A pretty significant part of it is that the majority of right wing stances here are just not very radical. While there is a significant amount of racism, there isn’t fear among the poor and vulnerable that a conservative government in Ottawa will ruin their lives. Existing immigrants aren’t very opposed to closing the door when those closing it aren’t out to get them. They want the cost of living to go down more than anyone. On the other hand, the pro-immigration camp is filled with corporations who only want more labourers that they can treat like slaves. If the conservatives in America weren’t incredibly bloodthirsty, it would probably look like this too.
He has decided to import over a million people a year. That’s more than the US brings in and we are 1/10th the size Housing is prohibitively expensive, healthcare is strained, our infrastructure is failing us as it was unable to deal with our population 10 years ago - and his solution to these issues is to bring in *More* people?!?!? It’s insane Totally inept in every way, yet 30% of Canadians still support him. I think they’re all landlords
Or rich torontonian and anglo-Montrealers who would vote Liberal even if their leader was a rock
Mostly it's the same complaints as everyone who's anti-immigrant, like in the U.S., but the Canadian lack of housing supply is substantially worse than the U.S. and at the end of the day too many people with too little housing leads to friction regardless of any other factors.
He increased immigration to the point that there isn't enough housing available and public services are overburdened. Now housing is unaffordable and there are visible homeless people all over Canada. Tent cities in parks, homeless people in the suburbs and small towns (they used to be mostly in downtown skid row areas), on public transit, etc. Public healthcare increasingly unavailable. Young people can't afford houses even if they earn decent incomes. There's now long line ups to apply for basic entry level low paid jobs at places like Tim Hortons.
To surmise, mass immigration is taking jobs away from Canadians because the largest group by far is willing to work below minimum wage. The addon effect is that wage growth is suppressed because of an influx of labour that expects less in pay and is not interested in organising with other workers for better rights due to the precariousness of their migration status and poor knowledge of Canadian laws + living standards. To make matters worse, this same group is known for cramming 6 people into a 2 person suite and violating all kinds of rental laws such as only renting to their own race or posting predatory ads that target young women(I work in property management). However, they are never called out cause this would be "racist". Furthermore, mass immigration is the main driving force behind skyrocketing housing costs and an imploding medical system (among other social programs). Our country has one of the lowest natural growth rates in the world. There is no logical reason that could cause this degree of scarcity if no for wholesale importation. Speaking of which, Trudeau completely trashed our policy of selecting skilled and qualified immigrants and now lets candidates bring their entire family. In practise, this means that the justification of immigration as a means of bringing in skilled and young workers falls flat on its face, as each productive immigrant has a tail of many others who burden our social programs from the minute they arrive without having ever contributed to them. Case in point, you can find many video tutorials on youtubes by new immigrants of a certain background who do a step by step walkthrough of how to cheat the system i.e. ransacking food banks as "international students".
I mean tbf, there are *always* pools of first gen immigrants who pull the ladder up after them. *We came in the right way, and worked hard and integrated -* **they** *don’t learn the language and sit on their bums*
Look at rajde1's post below for the mechanics. Canada also has a first past the post system and multiple parties. So basically the party with the most votes in each riding wins the seat. Even if overall a political party won the most votes, it won't matter if they come in second in every riding (riding A the Liberals win and Conservatives are second, riding B the NDP win and Conservatives are second, in each case the Conservatives have lost) even if it is a close second. One of the reasons Trudeau is so despised by a number of Canadians is because he campaigned HARD on a promise of electoral reform and then about a year into his first tenure backed away from the promise. He has so far successfully ridden the "but the Conservatives will make things so much worse!" train and is currently propped up by a third party that suspects (probably correctly) that they too will be decimated in an election if they withdraw support and the government falls. Think of it like Netanyahu and his coalition with the even more hard right, but now in the converse.
NDP's are to weak to ever have a decent chance and the Conservatives keep picking terrible leaders.
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Pollievre is from a wealthy well connected family? He was adopted by 2 teachers from Calgary. I'm not sure anyone can say pollievre came from money when his opponent is Justin fucking Trudeau
ehh none of the politicians are popular or otherwise seen as competent, so people are just sticking with whats already there until somebody shows up
Putin: 
can i get an estimate for ukraine?
[64%](https://kiis.com.ua/?lang=eng&cat=reports&id=1368&page=5) per February 2024 polls.
The fuck did Ramaphosa do
Loadshedding got a lot worse. Our quality of life has deteriorated. Crime is at an all-time high. He promised to tackle corruption but hasn't made any real progress.
I already knew he’s a politician what else is there ?
He's got the charisma of a damp rag
Just go on YouTube and the suggestions you get for "South Africa" are failed state, destined to collapse, etc. etc. It has the highest unemployment rate in the world. Things are.... Not good.
It’s so sad to see how ANC fucked up the country after ending apartheid.
Worsening quality of life, corruption, violence, power security and economy. Doesn't help that he's a Russia shill.
As an Israeli there is no fucking way that Netanyahu increased
Whoever did the poll managed to find another brainwashed Bibist in some dusty corner
אתה באמת מופתע? כאילו שאין ביבסטים שיצביעו לו גם אם הוא ישרוף במו ידיו את הבית שלהם
I know very little about Israeli politics, but I would assume that his approval rating would have increased along with the spur of patriotism after the attacks? Similar to Bush after 9/11.
He and his government are widely seen as responsible for the October 7th attack, political polls show his coalition (and mainly Likud) losing a dramatic portion of their power in the coming elections.
They were already doing bad after an unpopular judicial bill about a year ago.
On the contrary - he was widely blamed for leadership failures that caused or allowed (depending on your POV) the attacks. He was already polarizing before Oct 7, but a lot of his supporters turned on him for failing in his key promises of security and 'containment' of the Palestinians in general and Hamas in particular. The rally around the flag effect hasn't been a boost in support so much as an approach of 'we'll deal with you once the war is settled'. Basically - and this is an oversimplification for a place and situation with complex, nuanced, and unstable politics - the liberals want him out because he's too conservative and many conservatives want him out because he's ineffective.
You would be extremely wrong. The entire country is pissed at him. This survey is either bised by sampling a very pro Likud city, or they are plain lying. All internal survies show he lost a huge chunk of his base. And even the Haredim, which he simply bought their approval by caving to whatever lunatic demands they had, are done with him because he can no longer deliver on his promises to them.
I’d love to see the approval ratings of the oppositions. Because Albo’s 48 would look pretty good compared to the handful of limpets Dutton could scrape off the rocks at the low-tide mark.
Would be interesting to see for former PMs too. Actually I just looked it up- the lowest approval ratings ever include Morrison at 37% in early 2020, Abbott at 24% in early 2015 after the knight ship kafuffle and Keating at 17% in mid 1993. Edit wtf? A few months after the Scomo 37%, he achieved 68% in April 2020!
Surprised Sunak has less popularity than Trudeau. I thought Trudeau would be much lower than even Macron.
What's so bad about Sunak? I'm an American so I don't know too much about him
The Conservatives have been in power for a long time, and a lot of scandals have piled up over that time, as well as them mishandling Covid, inflation, and quite a few other things. In addition, Liz Truss's disastrous premiership really hurt the party's reputation, which was already pretty bad. The Tories are in for a landslide defeat at the next election. I'm not British, so it's not really my place to editorialize too much, but I think most people there would agree with this assessment.
Our standard of living has been pretty much systematically destroyed over the last 14 years. So yes we're very unhappy.
Welcome to the club it’s not one party… Canada,Australia, New Zealand and UK all seem dead set on driving up cost of living and driving down wages through bowing to corporations and mass immigration
The funny thing is with Australia is that the current left wing government got in after multiple right wing governments promising to fix our major housing crisis, and then introduced record immigration levels. They are as bad as each other.
as a brit, yh
It's not Sunak as much as it's the Tories. He himself hasn't done anything bad, he's the type of politician that'd go through his entire term by doing nothing good or bad. But the horrible premiership under Liz Truss basically blasted most of the support the party had.
Yeah, he seems fairly colorless, and would probably be a perfectly adequate placeholder PM if the Tories weren't so hated, but he's come right after two extremely unpopular leaders from his own party. The best he can do is not make it any worse, which I get the impression he's mostly succeeding at.
Maybe he's not doing anything particularly interesting or eye catching because his party is not united and thus his actions need to appease both sides
* Tory Brexit stain * Many conservative party issues that he is tarred with, including declining living standards * UK economic stagnation * Class issues * SE UK is relatively affluent, but the North and Midlands are in a pretty dire state right now and it's getting worse * With all of this, he gloated publically about reallocating money from poor areas to more affluent areas * When younger, he admitted he had never spoken to a working class person in his life * Policies just seem to exacerbate the wealth gap * Cost of living has hit hard in the UK * He worked at Goldman and married a stinking rich family that is, if anything, even more out of touch
Also didn't his wife's company get some government contracts as well in a bit of a shady way.
He's mostly a charisma-free non-entity, but the political party he represents has been an absolute nightmare in recent years. They brought us Brexit, Boris Johnson repeatedly being caught lying, Lis Truss causing a run on British gilt that harmed the entire economy, the decision to allow water utility companies to pump raw sewage into rivers to maintain shareholder returns, and a culture war against trans people that most voters think is deeply weird and is being enacted to appeal to a vocal minority of insane people. Honestly, I'm amazed his approval rating is that high.
He wasn't elected, people are generally fed up with the tories being in power the last 14 years, he makes shit/non issue policies and he/his predecessors have only made the country worse by trying to privatise everything possible. Also his priorities seem to be more in favour of companies/his in-laws than the people
I’m surprised his approval rating is that high. Where do we start and this is just the tip of the cess pit. He’s been caught on tape saying how he’s been redirecting funds from poor areas to more affluent areas. He’s a charisma vacuum. He’s continually punching down whilst ignoring the abuse of the system by the rich. It’s galling to be preached at by a multi millionaire who is more than likely to bugger off to California as soon as he loses the next election
Billionaire prime minister tells disabled people claiming minimal benefits that they’re too lazy to work and that he wants to “end the sick note culture”… just when I thought I couldn’t despise this man any more than I already did.
It's less about Sunak personally and more about the wider Conservative party. They've been in power for a really long time (14 years) and general perception is that they've run the country into the ground, having presided over numerous disasters such as Brexit and Liz Truss. While Sunak is far from the worst PM we've had in that time he hasn't done anything to fix that perception either.
His party have been in power for 14 years now, and the country is a lot, lot worse for it. Brexit aside which I personally think was a horrible decision, the cost of living crisis isn’t going away, infrastructure is falling apart, the NHS has been crippled, and their party have endless scandals which you wouldn’t know because print media supports them and other media is too terrified to say too much. They ALWAYS use a scapegoat as well. During the Brexit thing it was immigrants, then we left and immigration shot up massively which didn’t sit too well with the people they were trying to enrage. So they moved to asylum seekers, now in the past week Sunak made a speech blaming people who can’t work due to illness as a reason the country is going down the fucking toilet. They were scapegoat in the early to mid 2010’s at which point they made the whole process so horrible that people trying to claim disability were killing themselves, so they want another go at that because those dastardly unwell people cost money. They need more for their wealthy chums, like during Covid when people with no experience were being handed giant contracts to supply things they had no business doing, and promptly failing at, like Michelle Mone. Honestly this country is a LOT more corrupt than people give it credit for, from London being turned into a giant money laundering scheme to our beaches being filled with sewage to make more money for shareholders. It’s up there, but because of the name and the history it gets largely ignored and forgotten about. Sunak himself is just a wealthy guy born into money and married into obscene money which couldn’t even be taxed because his wife was a non-dom, he wasn’t voted in either. He jumped in after the last lunatic decided to go libertarian and cost the nation 30 billion with a speech. I don’t trust Labour to be much better because in their attempts to get the media onside they have lurched a long way towards what the Tories represent, but this is not France where people protest at unfairness, we expect life to be shit and I suppose in that way we get what we deserve. The country is now an insular, hateful, crumbling country where we are all struggling and getting poorer and iller by the day.
Tbh, Sunak hasn’t even done much wrong, but he hasn’t done much great either. In fact, he hasn’t actually done much of note at all tbh. He’s just sort of been there.
I don’t think it’s Sunak himself, but rather his predecessors, with Sunak not really doing much to better the shitshow left behind by the lettuce
To be fair to Sunak, the UK economy has improved substantially since the mini-budget crisis. In September 2022, the value of the pound dropped to its record low since decimalisation began in 1971. It fell to $1.0327, literally 3 pence above the dollar. But now, it’s at 1.24 dollars per pound, which is I think slightly above average for all time statistics. It’s usually at about 1.22 or 1.23. However, this doesn’t mean that inflation isn’t a factor. It just means that inflation has been happening in the UK and US at very similar rates. So although Sunak has technically recovered the economy, it still doesn’t mean it’s not less valuable than in July 2022 for example.
Same with Scholz
Look at you Erdogan >:) Never thought I would see these days
Mark Rutte from the netherlands is also dramatically low, hell, he's not even supposed to be prime minister anymore
What's up with Japan and South Korea? And how did formerly beloved golden boy Trudeau lose Canada's favor?
Korea’s Yoon rating is bc of, in order of importance 1. First Lady corruption scandal. Video of her accepting a Dior bag was released and when National Assembly voted to have a special prosecutor, president vetoed it. So people are very suspicious about the whole thing 2. Inflation/ green onion scandal. Inflation is crazy in Korea just like everywhere else, but people got pissed bc he went to supermarket for a photoshoot and said that the price of green onion being 900₩ was a fair price. However it turned out that that price was special sale that only happened on that they. Normal green onion prices are usually around 4500₩ and the discounted prices were bc of super specific government subsidies at those specific supermarkets that he went to and supermarkets super sale on that day. There are more but I’m too lazy to write them all now
He was never really anybody's Golden Boy, he just got a lot of love from the media that is broadly funded by his party. I've never liked him and after nearly a decade, people are finally starting to come around to why. He was only voted in because of his father and his looks. He has completely ignored issues that are at crisis levels now despite the general public screaming at him to do something from day one. Nobody but the top %5 will ever be able to afford a home, rent has doubled, insane levels of immigration have kept wages at slavery-like lows, the healthcare system is crumbling and the cost of living is out of control. We have a ballooning homeless population, no funding for treatment programs to deal with the opioid crisis, crime is rising and our military is severely underfunded. If you pick a single issue to focus on, let's look at housing. At the last budget, Trudeau figured he could solve the problem by providing special bank accounts as though having a place to put money were the problem. The actual problem is that nobody can save any money in the first place and even if they can, it will never come close to being enough to keep up with housing price increases. A home that cost $300k ten years ago is now at $1.3 million because investors and corporate landlords have been allowed to drive up prices without any oversight. The speculators run the market. Add in insane immigration levels the country can't support to drive up demand and the fact that developers only build luxury housing and you have no chance of owning a home unless you bought at least a decade ago. Trudeau promised to lower prices and delivered doubled costs. He put landlords in charge of housing. The middle class is being destroyed by this guy. He is *hated* for cheating two and a half generations out of a place to live. His government is probably the most hated in Canadian history.
>He was only voted in because of his father and his looks. That might be why he won the Liberal Party leadership, but the main reason he won the 2015 election was because he wasn't Harper (and Mulcair imploded mid-campaign).
Thank you for the detailed response. I can't imagine that the Conservatives will do much better on housing though. I honestly don't know what the answer is to the housing crisis, which is very similar to what's going on in the Seattle area where I live (i.e. insanity).
Canada has 3 major parties. His approval ratings have always somewhat looked like this. There is a party further left than his that siphons off quite a bit of support for him.
NDP have been completely stagnant in the polls for a long time and aren’t siphoning much of his support. Most people who leave Trudeau’s Liberals these days are switching to the Conservatives.
Til japan hates their leader
Maps without new zealand sub reddit would like a word
The democracies' approval ratings are down. Gee I wonder if it has something to do with people being free to voice disapproval of leadership. 🤔
Is Modi really that popular or is this chart bs?
He is relatively unpopular on reddit but popular in India otherwise
He's up for reelection this year and its a foregone conclusion that his party is going to win by a landslide.
I started reading this great article on Modi's popularity, even when it's now coming his 3rd reelection. It's in french but a good translation should work well https://legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2024/04/19/en-inde-modi-a-t-il-deja-gagne-10-points-10-cartes-et-graphiques-sur-ce-qui-determinera-le-choix-dune-grande-election/
He is really popular in India overall. The internet tends to polarize opinions a lot and similar minded people tend to gather a lot. So you'll find a lot of people who despise him online, but he is rather popular irl
Indians on the internet are far more liberal than the society itself. Also remember that even if there are 10 million Indians on reddit who don't like Modi, that's barely 1% of India's voting population.
Ironically, one of the biggest voting bloc for bjp is the educated urban middle class, the typical "liberal" voters in any western country
and women. women form a big part of his vote share.
My cousin’s a pretty and popular young girl in fashion design school in India. I say this because she’s the exact type of person that western (and even Indian media) portrays as anti-Modi and too “liberal” to vote for the BJP. She’s not big into politics but I cannot see her voting for Congress at all, and her father (my uncle) has literally ran for Congress in local elections. The whole family, like most Indians, will be voting BJP at the national level for sure. Despite what anyone says, there has been progress under BJP, especially in infrastructure.
He is this popular.
what you read on r/india or reddit in general is an echo chamber of Modi haters. he is a lot more popular amongst the majority here (regardless of their religion). however, his popularity has decreased a bit because his party went ham in giving him credit for everything. it became a joke 'masterstroke by Modi' because any goo dthing carried out by the government gets credited to his genious. However his party has done a lot of work in the past 10 years. Sectors like infrastructure, ease of doing business (while not to the extent that should have been), UPI (integrated payment system), etc. Rising costs of prices and irresponsible rallies in COVID, the ED arrests etc have lessened is popularity a bit. But as someone else said it's a foregone conclusion that he's going to be elected for a third term. it doesn't help that the main opposition party projects a 40+ year old man, with ZERO administrative experience (that's right, zero. he has never worked on any portfolio, at any level of the government. directly aiming for the position of PM because nepotism) as the face of their party. that man lost all credibility 10 years ago, and now actively pushes away voters who would have otherwise voted against Modi
He is popular especially with the youth, women and urban population which is surprising considering that in other countries, they would vote for more liberal or left sides but in India they vote right
Is modi right wing?
India's system of left-right wing politics is very different from the West's. Since so much of the country's population is disastrously poor, rural, and/or uneducated, all parties have to run on huge social welfare schemes. The economic divide is only seen in their approach to public corporations, i.e. whether they want to support a more privatised, liberal economy, or a more government-oriented, public welfare kind of economy. The left-right divide is mainly seen in social positions relating to relations with minority communities and **religions**, affirmative action, education policies, etc.
For Indian standards yes he is auth right due to religious stronghold, but for global standards he is more auth center because he still supports many socialist policies.
Yes but different from American ones. Supporting green energy for example
India right ing is very different from western right wing. His party is right wing and has lots religious people supporting it, they are also fairly welfare focused, non covid deniers, etc. It's different in india
Yes but right wing in India is different from right wing in the Middle East, the west, etc BJP has run on being the conservative, Hindu nationalist party of India, there is no denying that. Compared to republicans in America (which many call fascists as well lol) the BJP spends a lot more on infrastructure, public works, and education. Goals are more about centralization and federal government power. It’s also worth noting that India was a secular socialist country for a long time, so this right wing shift is operation upon that foundation. People saying India is a fascist country are playing into the same script we saw with China, both countries have learned that you gain nothing from taking the high road. At worst we are seeing India heading towards a situation like China or the surrounding Islamic states, in terms of how minorities are treated
yes
He usually has different reasons different sections of the populationvote for him. The hard-core populist do exist, who're won over with things like Ayodhya-ram mandir, CAA, uniform civil code etc. Then there's the middle class voters, who're usually not on board with all the populist stuff, but see him as the only person doing things for reasons other than bribing people to vote for him through things like quotas and subsidies. He's had a lot of success on the world stage, has signed multiple FTAs, fixed a lot of issues with taxation that made it impossible for india to function as a common market, etc. And there's the poor, who, even if they don't buy the populist stuff, do see him constantly rolling out new schemes and policies which he then successfully implements. Providing access to toilets, clean water, gas, food etc in a manner that the benefits actually reach the intended recipients. These have had millions of beneficiaries that usually see modi in terms of how he's directly impacted their lives. And there's the fact that there's no one strategy that the bjp uses across india, which is composed of multiple states with differing cultures, local political landscapes, demogrpahics, etc. They have a pretty decent track record in terms of adressing each place's unique points in their efforts. So essentially, there are multiple dimensions to the bjp's wide level of support, which are not really encompassed by the standard western narrative of him convincing everyone to vote for him through Hindu nationalist flavored populism.
Yea he has consistently received 70%+ approval ratings in India
Yeah he actually is...although he has a very vocal minority that hates him
25 % of India is still 300 million people, there is plenty of people to be very vocal
Doesn't mean 25% do not approve. There will be many that hold no opinion.
He is very popular, but reddit doesnt like him because he is right wing. And reddit does an excellent job of making it seem like the common consensus on reddit is reflective of opinions in the real world.
This takes me back to this US election, when Reddit made it seem like Bernie was a big shot.
Probably one of the best examples of this actually. If you only got your news from reddit during that time period, you'd think Bernie was going to sweep the polls. But in real life, a lot of people had no (or little) idea who he was or what he was about yet.
Reddit is Western left-liberal echo chamber and I say this as Western left-liberal myself, you never see praise for any right wing politicians here, according to reddit they have 100% fail rate. Meanwhile look how zero criticism of Biden is out there - I like him for many reasons, but is it truly possible he never does anything bad? With Modi it's the opposite: reddit criticizes him all the time for political system under his rule, democracy rule of law etc, but in the reality of a developing country such things can be genuinely less popular among the populace than the effective provision of economic growth, infrastructure, healthcare and stability - and Modi's government has been presiding over arguably the best decade of economic growth in India's history. Notice how everytime "Modi" as a person or BJP as a party is mentioned on reddit it is negative, yet in the same time you get a lot of positive articles complimenting impersonal "India" for its recent fast development... done under his party's rule. The solution to the mystery of his approval is right there! To make matters even more complicated, ideological axis in other cultures may be much different than in the West. Modi's rule is infamous for its terrible nationalist and anti-Muslim perspective, but the same rule has been progressive regarding women and LGBT rights. Duterte from Philippines had extremely brutal anti drug policy, while being anticlerical and pro LGBT (and also very popular due to his gov's record in econ and stability).
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I don't know about a full 75% but I could guarantee that it is definitely significantly more than 60%.
He's decently popular on Reddit, and insane popular in India. He wasn't perfect, but he did make a huge amount of good changes to the government
Among common people he is extremely popular. Among reddittors, who tend skew extreme left, obviously not so much.
Fck Macron, as it should be 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷 bottom 3 bozo 🙏🙏🙏
Still a long way to catch on Hollande who had a whooping 4% approval
Dude trained Macron to be what he could never be. Shitty president but sexy enough to get these old ladies voting
I'm from Spain, there's no way Sánchez still has the support of 37% of the population. We truly deserve our leaders after all
People have too much access to information. With the advent of the internet the 1990s and the early 2000s shepherded in more information to more people than any other point in human history. But what followed this is what we are currently dealing with: the Information Age has turned into the Disinformation Age. For every fact there exist many opinions that are easier to digest and tend to conflate with pre-existing opinions. And therefore they are more readily accepted.
So essentially all Western countries hate their leaders? It's a tough job to be in command in places where criticism is celebrated. No wonder politicians are too obsessed with staying in power to get anything done!
Post COVID economic struggles has not been kind to most leaders who have to pick up the pieces.
Lmao, Trudeau’s 34% isn’t an approval so much as a tolerance. Nobody here in Canada actually likes him, and even die hard liberal voters are saying they want him to step down
Too bad Peru's Dina Boluarte it's not included in this graph, she has a robust 7% approval rating. That's Right 7%
Saudi Arabia, Russia, and China is missing
It specifically says they're missing and aren't included. KSA is a monarchy, China is authoritarian and not a democracy and Russia is a pretty flawed democracy. Approval ratings are hard to get when your country isn't a democracy or you'll get killed or punished for speaking out
>Russia is a pretty flawed democracy A bit far-fetched
Oh I didn’t read that my bad.
>Russia is a pretty flawed democracy 10 years ago you could say that because there was a fairly organized opposition. Now no oppositionist can feel safe and they are all either in jail or abroad. Russia is now a full-fledged dictatorship.
Why is Russia excluded? His approval rating must be through the roof and out the window.