An overwhelming majority of Brazilians want an investigation into a sprawling kickback scheme at state-controlled oil producer Petrobras to continue despite concern it is hurting the nation’s ailing economy, according to a poll released on Monday.
Fully 90 percent of Brazilians say the investigation should continue, whatever the cost, according to the survey by polling firm Ipsos. Forty-six percent of those asked indicated they thought the scandal was damaging an already weak economy.
The poll also found that President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity remains in the single digits, with just 5 percent of those asked saying she was doing a good or great job.
That makes Rousseff the most unpopular president since Brazil’s return to democracy three decades ago and represents a sharp drop from when she was re-elected in October 2014. At that time, 48 percent polled by Ipsos said she was doing a great or a good job
Brazil Energy Insight 
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