Poll Shows Support for Obrador Rising Reuters
go to original April 25, 2012

Mexico's leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

Mexico City - Mexico's leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has moved almost level with ruling party candidate Josefina Vazquez Mota and closer to front-runner Enrique Pena Nieto, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday.

The latest voter survey by newspaper Reforma showed support for Lopez Obrador, runner-up in the 2006 election, rising 5 percentage points to 27 percent from a poll published on March 28, putting him just two points behind Vazquez Mota of President Felipe Calderon's conservative National Action Party, or PAN.

Pena Nieto, of the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), saw his support drop three points to 42 percent.

The results of the poll stripped out undecided voters or those who expressed no preference. The survey was conducted between April 19 and 22 and surveyed 1 515 voters. It had a total margin of error of around 2.5 percentage points, the newspaper said.

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