Gustavo Petropresidential candidate of the leftist Historical Pact, has 32% of the intention to vote for the elections on May 29 in Colombiaaccording to a poll published this Sunday in which the right-wing Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez reaches 23%.
The survey by the National Consulting Center, the first after last Sunday’s legislative elections and commissioned by Semana magazine, shows that Petro is nine points ahead of Gutiérrez, of the Equipo por Colombia coalition.
Behind Petro and Gutiérrez appear the populist Rodolfo Hernández, former mayor of Bucaramanga, with 10%, the same percentage as the candidate of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, Sergio Fajardo.
The list is completed by the candidates of the Green Oxygen party, Íngrid Betancourt (3%); of the National Salvation Movement, Enrique Gómez (1%), and the former governor of Antioquia Luis Pérez, who collects less than 0.5% of the voting intention.
Meanwhile, 5% of those surveyed assured that they would vote blank, while 13% responded that they do not know or do not respond.
The survey is released just a week after Sunday’s legislative elections, in which the presidential candidates of the coalitions of the Historical Pact, Team for Colombia and Hope Center were also elected.
Petro got almost 4.5 million votes in the internal consultation of his coalition on Sunday and Gutiérrez obtained more than 2.1 millionwhile Fajardo barely received more than 720,000 supports.
The survey by the National Consulting Center was conducted between March 18 and 19 to 2,143 people from 45 municipalities in different regions of the country and has a margin of error of 2.1%. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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