Poll Shows Pena Nieto is Way Ahead Patrick Ferguson and Magali Marlene Juarez - The News
go to original April 13, 2012

MEXICO CITY – A new survey shows that the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) candidate Enrique Peña Nieto is winning the presidential race, beating the National Action Party’s (PAN) candidate Josefina Vázquez Mota by 20.8 percentage points in approval.

Buendía & Laredo, the company that conducted the survey, interviewed 1,000 people in 125 different electoral zones in the country between March 30 and April 3. Mexico’s presidential election will take place on July 1.

According to the results, which were released on Tuesday, 45.4 percent of voters said they would vote for Peña Nieto, 24.7 percent for Vázquez Mota, and 16.4 percent for Andrés Manuel López Obrador, the presidential candidate of the leftist parties, including the Democratic Revolutionary party (PRD). The survey had a margin of error of about three percent.

Recently, polling companies have published different figures, some showing a smaller gap between Peña Nieto and Vázquez Mota.

According to Milenio-GEA/ISA’s survey, which is updated daily, presidential candidate Peña Nieto leads Vázquez Mota by about nine percentage points.

In a press conference, Green Party Senator Arturo Escobar y Vega said that the discrepancy between the two polls is due to the way the undecided votes are counted and differing voter approval ratings.

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