Duque has been under increasing pressure amid widespread anti-government protests in recent weeks.

A new poll shows that Colombia’s leader Ivan Duque has faced widespread anti-government protests in recent weeks and has become the country’s least popular president in history.

A telephone survey of 1,200 people conducted by the Invamer polling agency found that 76% of respondents disapproved of right-wing politicians’ presidency, compared with 59% in February.

Tuesday’s dismal rating surpassed the 74% disapproval record previously set by conservative Andres Pastrana, who served as president from 1998 to 2002 and led the fight against left-wing fighters. The peace negotiations failed.

Since then, Duque’s popularity has plummeted Social unrest broke out At the end of April, initially over Now abandoned Tax reform plan.

Since then, the protesters’ demands have expanded to include steps to withdraw the proposed health care reform, end widespread violence in the country, and address economic inequality.

The repression by the security forces resulted in the death of dozens of people, although the exact death toll is still unclear. Since the anti-government demonstrations began, 43 people have been killed in the conflict.

The aggressor survey also showed that 89% of Colombians support protests sweeping the country, while 56% have a negative view of the police.

Protests have continued after the president withdrew the controversial tax reform plan [Joaquin Sarmiento/AFP]

However, 60% rejected the barriers set up by some protesters, while 61% agreed to deploy troops to combat vandalism.

Although Duque blamed most of the violence on armed groups, the suppression of protests has attracted condemnation from the international community.

Last week, former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Juan Manuel Santos (Juan Manuel Santos) urged Duque to take responsibility for the abuses committed by the police.

Santos told W Radio: “We need more gestures, we need more empathy and humility, for the country to recognize:’Look, we committed abuse’.”