Lopez Obrador’s Lead Cut in Mexico Presidential Poll
Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the frontrunner in presidential opinion polls for more than two years, lost ground in a November poll, the first since the major parties chose their candidates.
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. Creel lost a primary Oct. 23.
“I think that the business community in general views Lopez Obrador as not particularly investor friendly,'’ said Charles Cassel, who manages about $125 million in emerging market fixed-income debt and equities for INTL Consilium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. “Any drop in the polls for Lopez Obrador is going to be seen as positive.'’
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The survey by Excelsior newspaper gave Felipe Calderon 36 percent support compared with 34 percent for former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. It was the first time Calderon has led the Excelsior poll, which last month showed Lopez Obrador ahead by 2 percentage points.
It follows a series of more closely watched newspaper polls that also showed Calderon moving ahead of the
Mexico's Lopez Obrador Slips in Polls; Maintains Lead
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Lopez Obrador, of the Party of the Democratic Revolution, led a nationwide poll taken by Reforma newspaper with 38 percent of likely voters saying they would choose him if elections were ``held today,'' down from 39 percent in January, Reforma said. The presidential election is this July.
``I don't think this changes the base-case scenario that Lopez Obrador will win,'' said
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Calderon, the National Action Partys candidate, led with 39 percent of voters preferences in May from 34 percent in April, the Mexico City-based newspaper reported today. Mexico holds presidential elections on July 2.
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In third place with 21 percent was Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico
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The candidate from the Democratic
Mexico ex-mayor launches poll bid
The former mayor of Mexico City has registered his candidacy for next year's presidential race.
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.
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Mexicos Calderon next target of election attacks
Mexican presidential candidate Felipe Calderon expects rivals to make him the focus of sniping and negative campaign ads now that he has taken the lead in a closely watched poll, his campaign chief said.
Calderon, a conservative, knocked leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador out of first place in the poll on Tuesday and gained more ground with a winning performance in a televised debate that Lopez Obrador opted out of.
The shift could make Calderon the new target of mudslinging that has previously seen the two main challengers call Lopez Obrador a dangerous populist
