A Newlink poll carried out from 28 September to 5 October 2018, that asked who of a list of politicians the person would vote for showed these results:
Luis Abinader of the PRM would obtain 23.2% of the votes; Leonel Fernandez of the PLD, 19%; President Danilo Medina 18.1%, former President Hipólito Mejía 11.7%. 21.5% of voters said they wouldn’t vote for none of those, and 1.5% checked the “others” category. For the poll, 1,203 persons were surveyed nationwide.
The 2015 Constitution bans President Danilo Medina from running for a third term. Nevertheless, polls include him because the party has the majority in Congress to make a new change to the Constitution that would enable him to run for office.
Regarding to party preferences, the study showed that 37% identifies with the ruling PLD party, followed by 19.1% with the opposition leader PRM, 10.7% with the PRD that allied with the PLD in the 2016 election, and 2.7% with the PRSC. 28% of those polled does not have a preference for a political party.
The low vote numbers in the poll confirm what a Gallup poll in September also had revealed: Dominicans are not happy about the choice of politicians.
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El Caribe
16 October 2018
