{"id":135630,"date":"2020-01-28T12:51:19","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T12:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=135630"},"modified":"2020-01-29T12:26:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T12:26:04","slug":"abinader-would-win-second-round-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/28\/abinader-would-win-second-round-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Abinader would win second-round vote"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Abinader-ganaria-2-vuelta-Hoy-e1580300756988.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-135697\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to findings of the Gallup-Hoy poll, no political candidate alone has enough votes to reach the 50%+1 vote needed to win in a first round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To the question: &#8220;If there were a second round for who would you vote?,&#8221; 53.3% of those polled for the Gallup-Hoy poll said they would vote for Luis Abinader of the Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) candidate Gonzalo Castillo would receive 30.2% of the vote and former PLD president, Leonel Fernandez would receive 15.3% of the vote. Fernandez had aspired to be the PLD candidate but split to create the People&#8217;s Force Party after claiming fraud in the 6 October 2019 primary. Fernandez has been President of the Republic from 1996-2000, 2004-2008 and 2008-2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gallup-Hoy asked eligible voters who they would vote for if the candidates in the second round election were Luis Abinader and Gonzalo Castillo. 58% said they would vote for the PRM candidate, and 36% for the PLD candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another scenario, if the candidates were Abinader and Leonel Fernandez, 57% said they would vote for Abinader and 31% for the People&#8217;s Force candidate.<br>\nIn a third scenario where the candidates were Castillo and Fernandez, 45.3% said they would vote for Castillo and 37.8% for Fernandez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gallup-Hoy poll was conducted from 16 to 21 January 2020, and has a confidence level of 95%. The margin of error is +\/- 2.8%. 1,200 eligible voters were polled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/abinader-obtendria-mas-votos-en-segunda-vuelta\/\">Hoy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/gallup-hoy-la-mayoria-cree-que-sin-leonel-el-pld-podria-perder-las-elecciones\/\">Hoy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 January 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to findings of the Gallup-Hoy poll, no political candidate alone has enough votes to reach the 50%+1 vote needed to win in a first round. To the question: &#8220;If there were a second round for who would you vote?,&#8221; 53.3% of those polled for the Gallup-Hoy poll said they would vote for Luis Abinader &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/01\/28\/abinader-would-win-second-round-vote\/\" 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":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135630"}],"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=135630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135698,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135630\/revisions\/135698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}