PM Modi outperforms world leaders again, has highest approval ratings at 66%: Survey

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PM Modi outperforms world leaders again, has highest approval ratings at 66%: Survey

Only three world leaders have their approval rating in the 60s. US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s Macron all are ranked in the table much below Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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June 18, 2021 12:26 IST
PM Modi outperforms world leaders again, has highest approval ratings at 66%: Survey
PM Modi outperforms world leaders again, has highest approval ratings at 66%: Survey

New Delhi: Despite the ravaging second wave of Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity and appeal among the masses remains much ahead of his global peers.

PM Modi’s global approval ratings stood at 66%, according to a survey conducted by Morning Consult, an American data intelligence firm. With this ratings, PM Modi continues to stay ahead of world leaders of 13 countries including US, UK, Russia, Australia, Canada, Brazil, France and Germany.

Only three world leaders have their approval rating in the 60s. US President Joe Biden, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and France’s Macron all are ranked in the table below Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Narendra Modi

The survey adds that PM Modi’s global approval rating has fallen from 75% to 66% in last 1 year but he holds the numero uno position.

“MorningConsult, which tracks national ratings of the elected leaders of 13 countries, shows a 20-point slide over the past year in the proportion of Indians who approve of Mr Modi. Yet at 66% in early June, he still outperforms all the rest,” the firm tweeted.

Biden, Merkel & Trudeau ranking in charts

According to Morning Consult, the second position was bagged by Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi (65%), followed by Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (63%), Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (54%), German Chacellor Angela Merkel (53%), US President Joe Biden (53%), Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (48%), UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson (44%), South Korean President Moon Jae-In (37%), Spanish Spain Pedro Sánchez (36%), Brazilian President Jaire Bolsonaro (35%), French President Emmanuel Macron (35%) and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga (29%).

The ‘Morning Consult’ regularly tracks approval ratings of world leaders. All survey interviews were conducted online and among nationally representative samples of adults.

The Morning Consult Global Leader Approval Rating Tracker was last updated on June 17 and it took a sample size of 2,126 literate adults in India.

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