Former Mexico City mayor still ahead in polls
MEXICO CITY: Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador continues to lead public opinion polls in advance of the 2006 presidential election.
Another survey was released today.Lopez Obrador is the nominee of the left-leaning Democratic Revolution Party, or PRD.He was supported by 39 percent of those surveyed for a poll published in the daily Milenio newspaper _ ten points ahead of Roberto Madrazo, the likely presidential nominee for the former ruling center-left Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI.In third place with 25 percent was Felipe Calderon, the official nominee of President Vicente Fox’s conservative National Action Party, or PAN.The majority of those surveyed said they believed Lopez Obrador to be the most responsible and honest, the most respectful of the law and the most concerned for the people.– The poll was based on in-person interviews with one-thousand adults between October 27th and the 30th.The margin of error is plus or minus three-point-two percentage points. Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
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Mexico ex-mayor launches poll bid
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Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signed up as a candidate for the Democratic Revolution Party's nomination, after stepping down as mayor on Friday.
Opinion polls suggest he is currently the favourite to win the poll.
Earlier this year he was the subject of a failed legal attempt to bar him from standing. About one million Mexicans rallied in the capital to support him.
"We know what needs to be done to make things better in this country," he said on Saturday.
'Poor
Mexico presidential race down to dead heat - poll
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The poll by the daily newspaper Reforma put Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party, or PAN, within 1 percentage point of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Calderon had 28 percent support with Lopez Obrador just ahead on 29 percent.
In third place with 21 percent was Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico
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There are still more than seven months to go before the vote on July 2. But the recent polls _ two of which showed the three candidates
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A victory by Humberto Moreira would serve as another boast for his Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which controlled Mexico's presidency from 1929 until losing to President Vicente Fox, of the conservative National Action Party in 2000.
The PRI has already shown resilience this year, capturing four of the six gubernatorial elections before Sunday, and it has held power in Coahuila since its inception in 1929.
A win by Moreira in this
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Calderon got 50 percent of the votes that had been counted, with Creel taking 36 percent; former Environment Secretary Alberto Cardenas had 13 percent.
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The nationwide poll by Consulta Mitofsky found Lopez Obrador's likely voters fell to 29.5 percent of those surveyed from 37.9 percent in August. Support for President Vicente Fox's National Action Party grew, with 24.4 percent saying they'd vote for Felipe Calderon compared with backing of 20.2 percent in August for the party's then-leading candidate, former Interior Minister Santiago Creel.
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