PRI Candidate in Strong Lead Say Pollsters Patrick Ferguson - The News
go to original March 20, 2012

MEXICO CITY – The Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto is leading the race, according to a new poll released by Buen Día y Laredo on Monday.

The poll indicates indicates that Peña Nieto, who is also backed by the Green Party (PVEM), is leading Josefina Vázquez Mota, of the National Action Party (PAN), by 20 percentage points, not taking into account the 20.8 percent of people surveyed who did not respond. Buen Día y Laredo polled 1,500 registered voters, both men and women, around the country between March 2 and 11. The survey, which was sponsored by the PVEM, cost 400,000 pesos and had a margin of error of about 3 percentage points.

“This new polls gives certainty to the population of who is leading the race,” said Arturo Escobar, a Green Party (PVEM) senator and spokesman. “This new poll best reflects the reality of what is happening in the presidential race.”

Recently, polls have shown that the gap between Vázquez Mota and Peña Nieto has tightened. According to a poll released by GEA/ISA earlier this month, Peña Nieto was winning by 7 percentage points while the Parametria polling firm had the PRI candidate up by 17 percentage points.

Escobar said that Buen Día y Laredo is a prestigious and reliable polling firm.

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