The president cabinet changes coincide with the publishing of an August Gallup-Hoy poll that shows the popularity and perception of the Fernandez administration sliding. According to the poll, 31% classed Leonel’s performance over the last three years as positive, but 42% consider it to have been negative. Of those polled, 29% described his presidency as good and 2.3% as very good, while 10.7% qualified his tenure as very bad and 31.6% as just bad. On a regional basis, the eastern part of the DR, 45.2%, considered Fernandez’s presidency to be good, which is above the national average. In the National District, 38% considered his presidency to be positive and in the northeastern part of the country, 25.2% of those polled classed his presidency as positive compared to just 22.7% of respondents in the south. Asked whether or not things were worse now compared to how they were when Fernandez took office in 2004, 47.3% of those polled said that things were worse, 16.1% said that things were the same and 34.6% said that things were better now. In the major areas of concern Fernandez received sub par ratings. In the area of energy, 51.8% considered his performance over the last three years as negative, 51.8% considered the efficiency of his cabinet to be negative, and corruption received a 57.8% negative rating. A total of 78.6% considered his track record on employment to have been negative, public transport received a 52.6% negative rating, public health received a 45.8% negative rating, 71.4% viewed the fight against crime as negative, 73.4% viewed the fight against illegal immigration as negative, 51% have negative feelings about economic stability, and 68.8% viewed the fight against drug trafficking as a failure. Education was the only area where the President received a positive rating, with 48.8% viewing it as positive. Finally 52.3% of those polled feel that the President’s last three years were worse than expected as opposed to 29.8% who say that his performance has been better than expected and 18% who feel it’s what they expected.<\/p>\n
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The president cabinet changes coincide with the publishing of an August Gallup-Hoy poll that shows the popularity and perception of the Fernandez administration sliding. According to the poll, 31% classed Leonel’s performance over the last three years as positive, but 42% consider it to have been negative. Of those polled, 29% described his presidency as … <\/p>\n