According to a survey conducted by the Cibao Economic Center (CEC), President Luis Abinader will win his bid for reelection on 19 May 2024 with a comfortable 63.5% of the votes. Abinader is running for the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM). A 50%+1 of the valid votes are needed to win in a first round.
According to the survey data, three-term former President Leonel Fernandez will be the runner up with 20.6% of the vote. The candidate for the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD), the political party that ruled the DR from 1996-2000 and from 2004-2020, former Santiago Mayor and former Chamber of Deputies president Abel Martínez Durán, will get 9% of the vote.
The Cibao Economic Center said that 3.6% of the likely voters were still undecided about who to vote for.
The president of the Centro Economico del Cibao is Leonardo Aguilera, currently the president of the Dominican Petroleum Refinery. Despite his being a high-ranking government officer, his polling firm is highly rated and has closely predicted the outcome of past elections.
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Centro Economico del Cibao
30 April 2024