A Cibao Economic Center (CEC) poll places presidential hopeful Luis Abinader in a comfortable position to win the nomination for the presidency for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), a PRD dissident group. Abinader received 57.6% of the voters’ intentions among the PRM rank and file, against 41.6% who said they would prefer to vote for former President Hipolito Mejia. In a general measurement, Abinader reached 47.9% against the 28.2% that Mejia received, with 21.3% not voting for either of the two and 2.6% saying they did not know who they were going to vote for. When asked which one should be the PRM presidential candidate, 61.5% of the citizens interviewed said that Abinader was the choice, while 33% thought that Mejia should be the candidate. 5.5% said they did not know. Within the PRM, Abinader climbed to 62.5% and Mejia to 37.5%.
When asked why they thought Mejia had decided to try for the presidential nomination, 29.1% said that he did it because of ambition or egotism, 27.3% mentioned the pressures of his political circle, 19.7% said it was an act of personal responsibility, 16.2% said it was in the exercise of his rights and 7.7% did not have an opinion. When the PRM rank and file was asked about the type of voting lists for electing their presidential candidate, 55.4% stated that it should be a semi-open list so that any citizen except the members of the PLD and the PRSC could vote. 42.4% said that they believed it should be a closed voting list only for the PRM rank and file. 2.2% did not know.
Some 71.4% of the PRM members believed that this party nomination convention would be clean, and 14.1% said that there would be some disorder, while 9.3% predicted that it would be fraudulent and 5.2% did not express an opinion. The poll was carried out from Friday, 16 January 2015 to Sunday, 18 January. 1,500 people were polled and the margin of error was plus or minus 2.5%
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