{"id":126166,"date":"2019-05-13T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=126166"},"modified":"2019-05-14T08:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T08:38:17","slug":"april-2019-gallup-hoy-poll-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/13\/april-2019-gallup-hoy-poll-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"April 2019 Gallup-Hoy poll wrap-up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Gallup-Hoy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-126223\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Gallup-Hoy.jpg 323w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Gallup-Hoy-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The April 2019 Gallup-Poll revealed that 51% of the Dominican people approve of the government of President Danilo Medina, but two-thirds of the population oppose him running for a third term. To do so, Medina would have to amend the Constitution. 68% of voters reject amending the Constitution to enable Medina to run again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>58% of the voters surveyed by Gallup-Hoy said they would prefer a different political party to win the 2020 general election. Despite the influential political patronage, only 35% expressed their preference for the PLD to stay in power. <br>\nLikewise, the poll revealed that while the ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) continues to be the most popular political party, with 39% of preferences, followed by the PRM with 22%. But 24% of the population say they do not follow any political party. The PLD has been in power from 1996-2000, 2004-2008, 2008-2012, and 2012-2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Likewise, the poll revealed that if the election were held on the day of the poll, 38% would vote for the PLD, 25% for the PRM and 18% is undecided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gallup poll was undertaken from 25-29 April 2019 with 1,200 participants, and a margin of error of +\/- 2.8%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<br><a href=\"http:\/\/hoy.com.do\/por-si-se-lo-perdio-estos-son-todos-los-resultados-de-la-encupor-si-te-lo-perdiste-estos-son-todos-los-resultados-de-la-encuesta-gallup-hoy-de-esta-semana\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SOqLe32xJBA\">Altagracia&nbsp;Salazar&nbsp;Sin&nbsp;Maquillaje&nbsp;Part&nbsp;1<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZhjD0ytvqek\">Altagracia&nbsp;Salazar&nbsp;Sin&nbsp;Maquillaje&nbsp;Part&nbsp;2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>13 May 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The April 2019 Gallup-Poll revealed that 51% of the Dominican people approve of the government of President Danilo Medina, but two-thirds of the population oppose him running for a third term. To do so, Medina would have to amend the Constitution. 68% of voters reject amending the Constitution to enable Medina to run again. 58% &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/05\/13\/april-2019-gallup-hoy-poll-wrap-up\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126166"}],"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=126166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126224,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126166\/revisions\/126224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}