Poll: Top presidential candidates are tied
El Salvador’s presidential race has tightened, with the leading candidates in a virtual tie and likely facing a runoff election, according to a poll released Friday.
Mauricio Funes, a TV journalist who would become the first leftist president of El Salvador since the country’s bloody civil war, had about 50 percent support in other previous polls. Now he has 38 percent, compared to 35 percent for Rodrigo Avila of the ruling conservative Arena party, according to Consulta Mitofsky.
The survey had a margin of error of 2 percentage points, meaning it is possible that Funes could be trailing slightly.
Funes represents the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a guerrilla group-turned-political party.
Other respondents preferred different candidates, were undecided or declined to say how they would vote on March 15.
Consulta Mitofsky, an independent pollster based in Mexico, questioned 1,200 likely voters face to face from Jan. 23-25 in 60 of El Salvador’s 262 municipalities.
Source: AP 2/1/2009
Mauricio Funes, a TV journalist who would become the first leftist president of El Salvador since the country’s bloody civil war, had about 50 percent support in other previous polls. Now he has 38 percent, compared to 35 percent for Rodrigo Avila of the ruling conservative Arena party, according to Consulta Mitofsky.
The survey had a margin of error of 2 percentage points, meaning it is possible that Funes could be trailing slightly.
Funes represents the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a guerrilla group-turned-political party.
Other respondents preferred different candidates, were undecided or declined to say how they would vote on March 15.
Consulta Mitofsky, an independent pollster based in Mexico, questioned 1,200 likely voters face to face from Jan. 23-25 in 60 of El Salvador’s 262 municipalities.
Source: AP 2/1/2009
Mitofsky?
ReplyDeleteJa, ja, ja, ja, then it's BS! Es risible!
Cree en la encuesta de Mitofsky, seria como preguntarle a Merino del FMLN cual partido politico es el mejor..
Mitofsky es parte de la guerra sucia, antietica, inmoral, bajera, corrupta y escuadronera de la derecha (arena) de El Salvador.
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ReplyDeleteWow!
ReplyDeleteTo accept such poll from an stranger or outsider poll to tell us the Salvadorans who must be our Goverment.
ReplyDeleteIt is a shame to say that the presidential candidates are even.
Funes is far above the Policeman who is leading a negative campaign against the regular salvadoran decent mind not the crazy mind of this diabolic perverse psico-death squad member.
Jose Matatias Delgado Y Del Hambre.
Jose Matatias Delgado Y Del Hambre.