{"id":114005,"date":"2018-06-28T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=114005"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T19:35:09","slug":"centro-economico-del-cibao-poll-luis-abinader-would-defeat-leonel-fernandez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/06\/28\/centro-economico-del-cibao-poll-luis-abinader-would-defeat-leonel-fernandez\/","title":{"rendered":"Centro Econ\u00f3mico del Cibao poll: Luis Abinader would defeat Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_113936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113936\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-113936\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Centro-Economico-del-Cibao-Poll-Listin-Diario-300x127.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: List\u00edn Diario<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A recent Centro Econ\u00f3mico Cibao poll shows Luis Abinader of the PRM with a 43.6% electoral preference compared to Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez of the ruling PLD party with 36.6%. The same poll shows that if the 2015 Constitution were changed to allow President Danilo Medina to win, he would tie with Luis Abinader. The poll was carried out 9 to 14 June 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Abinader is gaining in voter preference, compared to Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez, the eligible pre-candidate to beat in the ruling party. Abinader increased his positioning from 39.5% in the previous 11-14 May 2018 poll by the same company, to 43.6%. At the same time, Fern\u00e1ndez\u2019s popularity declined, from 36.6% to 39%.<\/p>\n<p>Although the incumbent Danilo Medina is constitutionally impeded from running for the next election, he was included in the study that presented Abinader slightly outstripping him, 40.8% to 40.1%, with a decrease of Medina, 1.9%, and a slight rise of 0.7% for Abinader.<\/p>\n<p>80.8% of those surveyed by the firm said change is needed. 74.8% of those polled said the country is headed in the wrong direction. This opinion had been had by 69.8% in the previous May poll.<\/p>\n<p>For the poll, 1,500 persons eligible to vote were interviewed. The poll has a margin of error of plus\/minus 2.5%.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/2018\/politica\/8580842-luis-abinader-aventaja-a-leonel-43-6-a-36-6-80-8-dice-la-cosa-va-mal-y-se-necesita-un-cambio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acento<\/a><br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/06\/28\/521759\/encuesta-arroja-que-abinader-aventaja-a-leonel-43-6-a-36-6-<\/p>\n<p>28 June 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Centro Econ\u00f3mico Cibao poll shows Luis Abinader of the PRM with a 43.6% electoral preference compared to Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez of the ruling PLD party with 36.6%. The same poll shows that if the 2015 Constitution were changed to allow President Danilo Medina to win, he would tie with Luis Abinader. The poll was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/06\/28\/centro-economico-del-cibao-poll-luis-abinader-would-defeat-leonel-fernandez\/\" 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\/114005"}],"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=114005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}