The First Lady, the Cardinal and the Mayor of Santo Domingo are the public figures gaining the highest scores in the Listin Hamilton public opinion poll carried out recently, according to the lead story in Listin Diario. The President, Leonel Fernandez was placed fifth. Those polled were asked to rate a number of public figures. Other high scorers were Monsignor Agripino Nunez Collado who received almost as much support as Santo Domingo Mayor Roberto Salcedo. 32% of those polled expressed a “very favorable’ opinion of First Lady Margarita Cedeno de Fernandez, awarding her first place in the poll. The lowest scores were obtained by former President Hipolito Mejia, PRSD leader Hatuey Decamps and leading PRSC member Carlos Morales Troncoso. Listin Diario also reports that Decamps has criticized the results of the Listin Hamilton poll and declared that his new party, the PRSD, which broke away from the PRD earlier this year, would “deliver some surprises” in next year’s congressional and municipal elections. For his part, former President Hipolito Mejia interpreted the poll’s results to mean that his successor Leonel Fernandez had an approval rating of just 24%, dismissing his own 71% “unfavorable” score.