Weekly Report - 9 July 2015 (WR-15-27)

Chile’s national football team won the Copa América tournament for the first time in the country’s history on 4 July. Chile was hosting the South American football event and President Michelle Bachelet desperately sought to capitalise on the ‘feel good factor’ that the team’s progress, and eventual triumph, generated. But an opinion survey published by the local pollster Adimark the day after the final in Santiago showed Bachelet sinking to an approval rating of just 27% in June and a disapproval rating of 68%, two percentage points more than May and the same figure that her predecessor, Sebastián Piñera (2010-2014), reached at his lowest ebb in August 2011 when the student demonstrations of that year reached their climax.