BRASILIA (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff's popularity has fallen to a new low and a majority of Brazilians now favour her impeachment, according to an opinion poll published on Monday.
The CNT/MDA poll confirmed other recent surveys that have shown Rousseff's popularity plunging due to a massive corruption scandal at state-run oil company Petrobras as well as a stagnant economy that faces rising inflation.
The new survey said 59.7 percent of respondents favour Rousseff's impeachment, while 64.8 percent rate her government negatively, with only 10.8 percent seeing it positively.
When CNT/MDA last surveyed Rousseff's popularity in late September, before her narrow re-election in October, 41 percent of respondents rated her government as "great" or "good" and 23.5 percent as "bad" or "terrible".
The poll also showed that Rousseff's personal approval rating had dropped to 18.9 percent from 55.6 percent in September, while 77.7 percent of respondents said they disapproved of her leadership versus 40.1 percent in the previous survey.
If Brazil were to hold presidential elections today, opposition leader Aecio Neves would win. In the poll, 55.7 percent of respondents said they would vote for Neves, who lost the October presidential vote in a close runoff. Just 16.6 percent said they would vote for Rousseff.
The MDA poll, commissioned by the national transport lobby group CNT, surveyed 2,002 people between March 16 and 19.
(Reporting by Anthony Boadle; Editing by Todd Benson and Peter Galloway)
