El Salvador ruling party leads in presidential poll
El Salvador ruling party leads in presidential poll
SAN SALVADOR Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:39pm GMT
(Reuters) - El Salvador's ruling leftists held a solid lead in a poll released on Wednesday ahead of the February 2 presidential election, but a right-wing challenger still had enough support to force a run-off vote.
A poll by the Universidad Centroamericana showed 46.8 percent of voters would back the ruling Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation (FMLN), whose candidate is former guerilla commander Salvador Sanchez.
The right-wing opposition Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), whose candidate is Norman Quijano, was supported by 32.8 percent. Unidad, another right-wing party, took 14.7 percent.
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