{"id":117594,"date":"2018-10-16T09:50:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=117594"},"modified":"2018-10-16T09:50:22","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T13:50:22","slug":"newlink-poll-abinader-23-fernandez-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/16\/newlink-poll-abinader-23-fernandez-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Newlink poll: Abinader 23%, Fernandez 19%"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114133\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114133\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114133\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Leonel-Fernandez-and-Luis-Abinader-300x198.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114133\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez and Luis Abinader \/ Al Momento<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>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:<br \/>\nLuis Abinader of the PRM would obtain 23.2% of the votes; Leonel Fernandez of the PLD, 19%; President Danilo Medina 18.1%, former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda 11.7%. 21.5% of voters said they wouldn\u2019t vote for none of those, and 1.5% checked the \u201cothers\u201d category. For the poll, 1,203 persons were surveyed nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2018\/10\/15\/panorama\/abinader-y-leonel-son-favoritos-para-ganar-elecciones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El Caribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>16 October 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda 11.7%. 21.5% &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/16\/newlink-poll-abinader-23-fernandez-19\/\" 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\/117594"}],"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=117594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}