Lopez Obrador Throws Fit Over Poll Numbers News Wire Services
go to original June 20, 2012

AMLO said the results from the poll must be a “mistake,” because according to his own calculations, “we are still ahead.”

Progressive Movement presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) rejected a survey published on Tuesday putting him 12 points behind Enrique Peña Nieto, even though he had previously boasted about his performance in a Reforma poll.

The newspaper’s new poll places the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) Peña Nieto as the frontrunner of the presidential race with 42 percent; followed by AMLO, with 30 points.

AMLO said the results from the poll must be a “mistake,” because according to his own calculations, “we are still ahead.”

The newspaper’s previous poll, released May 31, showed only a 4 percent gap between the two candidates, raising questions about a closer-than-expected race.

The result from the latest survey puts the newspaper daily in line with nearly every other major poll, where Peña Nieto is leading his rivals by double digits.

Josefina Vázquez Mota, candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), is lagging in third place with 24 percent, while Gabriel Quadri grabbed 4 percent.

AMLO lost the 2006 election to President Felipe Calderón in a tight finish and contested the result, staging months of protests. Some markets observers feared a repeat of the last election after seeing the Reforma poll last month.

According to the poll conducted by Consulta Mitofsky between June 15 and 17, Peña Nieto’s lead grew by almost half a percentage point in raw voter preference compared to a poll published by the same company last week – from 37.6 to 38 percent.

AMLO’s raw voter preference dropped from 25.1 percent to 24.3 percent, while Vázquez Mota maintained 21 percent of raw voter preference, and Quadri stayed at 2 percent, stated Consulta Mitofsky.

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