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| CERC POLL: PIŅERA STILL AHEAD IN CHILE'S PRESIDENTIAL RACE |
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| Written by Santiago Times Staff | |
| Wednesday, 12 August 2009 | |
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Conservative businessman Sebastián Piñera continues to enjoy a lead going into the Dec. 11 presidential election, according to a new poll by the Center for Studies in Contemporary Reality (CERC). The survey, released Wednesday, has Piñera at 37 percent, 15 percentage points ahead of this closest rival, Sen. Eduardo Frei (22 percent). Dark horse candidate Marco Enriquez-Ominami is running third with 15 percent followed by far-left candidates Jorge Arrate and Alejandro Navarro, 1 percent each, and center-right Sen. Adolfo Zaldivar with just a fraction of a percent.Piñera, a former senator with the center-right National Renovation (RN) party, is also likely to beat his rivals in a potential runoff, the CERC poll suggested. Against Frei, who represents the governing Concertación coalition, Piñera leads 41 percent to 33 percent. The poll has the RN candidate beating Enriquez-Ominami 41 percent to 28 percent. “I’m convinced we’re going to win this presidential election,” Piñera told reporters after learning the results of the new CEC survey. Enriquez-Ominami, a 36-year-old deputy who recently quit the Socialist Party to run as an independent, was also enthusiastic about the poll, which shows him gaining. “We’ll go to the second round,” he said. “It’s the same poll (company) that one month ago, had me at 1 percent. We didn’t exist.” SOURCE: RADIO COOPERATIVA By Santiago Times Staff ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) |
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