ABC Marketing, a Peruvian consulting firm, reports findings that 81.2% of Dominicans eligible to vote in the 2020 general elections are against amending the Constitution. The amendment would enable President Danilo Medina to seek a third term in office. Only 12.1% of those polled said they agreed with constitutional reform. 6.7% did not respond to the pollsters.
The same poll says that the rejection to the amendment had been 73% in November 2018, increasing to 77% in February 2019 and 81.2% in July 2019.
The research was carried out from 1 to 10 July 2019 and the results presented on Sunday, 14 July 2019, by company director Juan Carlos Maldonado, in a press conference in Santo Domingo. 1,000 members of the voting public across the country were polled.
Leading polls have regularly shown strong opposition to constitutional reform. A March 2019 Asisa Research poll showed 73% of those polled were against constitutional reform. A May 2019 Gallup-Hoy poll revealed that 68.3% of Dominicans eligible to vote in 2020 oppose constitutional reform.
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Somos Pueblo
17 July 2019