The presidential candidate of the Mexican ruling party, Claudia Sheinbaummaintains an advantage of 17 percentage points after a month of campaigns leading up to the June 2 elections, as revealed this Monday by an El Financiero survey.
In the measurement carried out in March, the preferences of Sheinbaum, of the Let’s Keep Making History coalition, climbed one percentage point to 51%.
While the voting intention of his main rival, Xóchitl Gálvez of the opposition alliance Fuerza y Corazón Por México, also rose one percentage point to a 3. 4% of voting intention.
Meanwhile, the candidate from the also opposition Citizen Movement (MC), Jorge Álvarez Máynez, fell in the preferences to a 7%.
He 8% The remainder is from those who did not declare any preference.
The opinion study is published two months before the presidential elections in Mexico, on June 2, when 97 million Mexicans are called to vote for 20,708 federal positions, including the presidency, the 500 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and the 128 of the Senate, as well as nine state governments.
It also reflects the preferences one month after the start, on March 1, of the official campaign, in which presidential candidates will be able to make formal proposals and acts of proselytizing until May 29.
Likewise, the El Financiero survey found that Sheinbaum, former head of government of Mexico City, has a 55% of favorable opinion and a 30% unfavorable.
While Gálvez reached a 39% of positive opinion and a 43% negative.
In contrast, Álvarez Máynez obtained 17% of opinions in favor, 43% against and 40% did not express any opinion.
The survey also found that 41% of voters consider crime and insecurity as the “most urgent issue”, the 31% the economy and jobs, and the 13% corruption and transparency.
The survey was conducted by telephone with 1,200 adults on March 9, 10, 15, 16, 21 and 23, with a confidence level of 95% and a margin of error of 2.8%.
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Source: Gestion
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