{"id":111200,"date":"2018-04-04T13:23:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=111200"},"modified":"2018-04-04T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T17:23:54","slug":"asisa-research-shows-leonel-fernandez-ahead-of-luis-abinader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/asisa-research-shows-leonel-fernandez-ahead-of-luis-abinader\/","title":{"rendered":"Asisa Research shows Leonel Fernandez ahead of Luis Abinader"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_111102\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-111102\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111102\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Asisa-Reelecci\u00f3n-Hoy-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-111102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Hoy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Asisa Research poll results released this week via the Listin Diario reveal that 71% do not want the Constitution to be amended again so that President Danilo Medina can run for President a third time. The same poll indicates that former President Leonel Fernandez of the ruling PLD party and former PRM presidential candidate Luis Abinader are the highest ranked among the preferences to be their party\u2019s presidential candidates in the 2020 general election. Fernandez was President from 1996-2000, 2004-2008, and 2008-2012.<\/p>\n<p>43% of those polled said that they would favor Leonel Fernandez in a PLD primary, 31% Danilo Medina, and 17% Vice President Margarita Cede\u00f1o. The candidate with the highest acceptance in the PRM is former PRM candidate Luis Abinader with 62%, followed by former President Hip\u00f3lito Mejia with 18% and National District Mayor David Collado with 16%.<\/p>\n<p>The politician with the highest rejection rate was Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda with 22%, Leonel Fernandez with 17% and Danilo Medina with 14%, Miguel Vargas 8% and Ramfis Dom\u00ednguez Trujillo 7%.<br \/>\nThe poll matched Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez against Luis Abinader, and Fernandez received 46% of the vote compared to 36% for Abinader.<\/p>\n<p>The poll was carried out 17-19 March 2018 in 200 locations nationwide. Some 2,002 eligible voters were polled.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/04\/03\/508989\/leonel-y-abinader-lideran-preferencia-en-sus-partidos-segun-asisa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4 April 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asisa Research poll results released this week via the Listin Diario reveal that 71% do not want the Constitution to be amended again so that President Danilo Medina can run for President a third time. The same poll indicates that former President Leonel Fernandez of the ruling PLD party and former PRM presidential candidate Luis &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/04\/04\/asisa-research-shows-leonel-fernandez-ahead-of-luis-abinader\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}