A regional ballot printed on Wednesday by the analysis company CB Consultora Opinión Pública discovered that Argentine President Javier Milei ranks as the preferred head of state in South America.

The survey, carried out by the Argentina-based analysis company throughout the area’s international locations through the month of December, discovered that the Argentine libertarian president leads the charts, ending 2024 with an approval ranking of 51.8 %, making him each the highest-rated President within the area and the one one with an approval ranking of over 50 %.

Uruguay’s outgoing center-right President Luis Lacalle Pou ranked second with 49.8 %, and Paraguayan conservative Santiago Peña ranked third with 46.7 %.

Milei’s measured approval scores throughout December marked a rise from the 50.2 % recorded by CB Consultora Opinión Pública in its November ballot. On the time, Milei occupied the rating’s second place towards Lacalle Pou’s 51.5 % approval ranking. Throughout September’s month-to-month ballot outcomes, Milei reportedly occupied the sixth place.

All through his first yr in workplace, Milei, who took workplace in December 2023, applied a dramatic overhaul of Argentina’s bloated authorities establishments and enacted a collection of drastic “shock remedy” measures and sweeping reforms to avert the collapse of the nation’s financial system and keep away from a hyperinflation spiral. The insurance policies efficiently lowered inflation from 25.5 % in January to 2.4 % in November.

Most notably, CB Consultora Opinión Pública’s survey discovered that the entire area’s leftist presidents ranked because the worst-rated alongside Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro.

Brazil’s radical leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ranked fifth, with 53.1 % of respondents expressing an unfavorable opinion of Lula towards 44.3 % who responded favorably. Chile’s far-left President Gabriel Boric ranked sixth, with a 40.2 % approval ranking.

In Colombia, Gustavo Petro, a former member of the Marxist M19 guerilla and the nation’s first leftist president ever, ranked seventh, with 39.9 % of respondents expressing a positive opinion of Petro towards 56.6 % who expressed a unfavorable opinion. Colombian media reported on Wednesday that the ballot’s outcomes denote a downward development in Petro’s approval ranking from November’s 41.2 %.

The area’s three worst-rated Presidents, in keeping with the survey’s outcomes, are Bolivia’s socialist president Luis Arce, Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro, and Peruvian President Dina Boluarte.

Arce, a notoriously pro-Iran President who’s presently waging a prolonged energy wrestle over management of Bolivia towards his former mentor and suspected pedophile Evo Morales, obtained an approval ranking of 33.6 % of respondents, towards 63.2 % who responded unfavorably.

Maduro, who held a extremely fraudulent presidential election in late July and unleashed a brutal persecution marketing campaign towards dissidents who protested the fraudulent electoral occasion and its “outcomes,” closed 2024 with a disapproval ranking of 67.4 %. Maduro is slated to start a brand new fraudulently-obtained six-year presidential time period on January 10, 2025.

Lastly, Peru’s leftist President Dina Boluarte was rated by respondents because the worst in South America, with 76.4 % expressing their disapproval of the Peruvian President. Boluarte, a former member of the Marxist Free Peru social gathering, took workplace and succeeded former Marxist President Pedro Castillo, who was impeached and arrested in December 2022 after he unsuccessfully tried to dissolve Congress and keep in energy by way of a failed autogolpe (“self-coup”). Boluarte served as Castillo’s vice chairman.