78.9% agree or agree with the departure of the Minister of Health, Jaime Mañalich, from his position, as revealed by the Pulse Citizen of Activa Research survey published on Monday.
15.5% of respondents disagree or disagree with the controversial minister’s departure and 5.6% were very at odds or disagree with his departure last Saturday.
With a sample of 1,730 interviews, this measurement was made on Thursday 11, Friday 12 and Saturday, June 13, until 20.30 hours, through a nationally representative online panel.
As for Mañalich’s replacement, 28.0% declare that they agree or very much agree with the appointment of Enrique Paris as the new Minister of Health, while 50.6% neither agree nor disagree and 21.3% very much disagree or disagree.
Covid-19 management and Piñera approval
In other data from the survey, 64.9% have little or no confidence in the figures of infected and deaths delivered by the Ministry of Health, day by day, in relation to the pandemic.
The public maintains a critical view of the Government’s management of the pandemic, to the point that 91.2% of the population declares that Chile is not prepared to prevent the mass contagion of Coronavirus. In addition, 58.6% have little or no confidence that the Government will be able to overcome the crisis caused by Coronavirus, while 18.3% have a lot of confidence or confidence.
In fact, 73.8% believe that Chile is getting worse in terms of pandemic control, 21.9% that is staying the same, and 4.2% that it is improving.
Similarly, 72.7% believe that the reason for the increase in contagion is due to the government’s late adoption of quarantine measures, 65.6% to the irresponsibility of the population by failing to take social separation measures; while 44.8% believe it has been because the government does not adequately monitor and control quarantine.
In this context, the approval of President Sebastián Piñera reaches 13.6% in the first fortnight of June, increasing +0.9 points in relation to the measurement of the second fortnight of May, where it reached 12.7%.
Cabinet approval is 10.5%. Disapproval increased by three points, from 76.1% during the second half of May to 79.2% in the first half of June.
Assessment of measures
In terms of measures, 85.0% of respondents agree or agree that the Government declares a total quarantine in the country for 2 weeks to control the Coronavirus.
43.7% of respondents prefer measures that prioritize taking care of people’s health over the economy, 50.9% measures that balance both aspects, and 5.4% prefer economic measures over health measures.
62.9% agree or agree with the delivery of 2.5 million boxes of goods to the most vulnerable families, to deal with the economic crisis resulting from COVID-19. 67.4% of respondents would prefer to receive cash as government aid, while 32.6% would prefer to receive the goods box at home.
