{"id":131161,"date":"2019-09-18T12:52:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T12:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=131161"},"modified":"2019-09-18T16:25:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T16:25:52","slug":"september-poll-puts-fernandez-in-the-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/09\/18\/september-poll-puts-fernandez-in-the-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"September poll puts Fernandez in the lead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"673\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Leonel-and-Abinader-Listin-Diario.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Leonel-and-Abinader-Listin-Diario.jpeg 673w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Leonel-and-Abinader-Listin-Diario-300x205.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 673px) 100vw, 673px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an opinion poll carried out by BerlandTeram-SISGLO, former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) will win the 6 October primaries.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The results were presented by company president Mike Berland, who said that the poll showed Fernandez would beat Gonzalo Castillo in the PLD primaries 70% to 29%. The findings also show Abinader will beat former President Hip\u00f3lito Mej\u00eda with 87% versus 9%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When those polled were asked who would become the next President, Fern\u00e1ndez led with 43%, followed by Abinader with 26% and Castillo 4%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those polled named corruption (42%), unemployment (14%), crime (12%) and poverty (6%) as the leading problems. Others mentioned low wages, lack of potable water, lack of services, and poor conditions of roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The poll was carried out among 1,240 Dominicans, across the country, from 7 to 9 September 2019, with a margin of error of 2.97% and 95% level of confidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2019\/09\/17\/582926\/leonel-y-abinader-figuran-favoritos-para-primarias\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 September 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to an opinion poll carried out by BerlandTeram-SISGLO, former President Leonel Fern\u00e1ndez of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) and Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) will win the 6 October primaries. The results were presented by company president Mike Berland, who said that the poll showed Fernandez would beat Gonzalo Castillo in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/09\/18\/september-poll-puts-fernandez-in-the-lead\/\" 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":[154,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161"}],"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=131161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131201,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131161\/revisions\/131201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}