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June 7 is quickly approaching and the battle
of the sexes is heating up, as Johnny Araya
and and Laura Chinchilla, lead a close
campaign for the Partido Liberacion Nacional
(PLN) party nomination for the 2010
presidential elections.
The latest poll places the former San José
mayor ahead of the former vice-president of
Costa Rica.
Araya, according to the Demoscopía conducted
for the daily La Nacion, has 49.4% support
by decided voters, while Chinchilla trails
at 46.2%, if the party convention were held
today.
The poll took into account 1.095 people ages
18 and over in all parts of the country
between February 19 and 26. The margin of
error is 3%.
The third person seeking the nomination,
former security minister, Fernando Berrocal,
only got 1.8% approval.
José Alberto Rodríguez, president of
Demoscopía, said that the Araya advantage
does not mean a win for him and that there
is still a way to go before June. Rodríguez
reminded that in the October poll Chinchilla
was ahead of Araya.
Rodríguez added that Chinchilla has a strong
support from women and the young, saying the
evidence is in the numbers. He added that
there still are men that do not accept the
idea of woman as leader, maybe because of
their traditional political cultural
beliefs.
The poll also indicates that the PLN is the
most popular party with a 34.2% approval
rate, compared to 4.8% approval for the
Partido Acción Ciudadana (PAC), which for
the first time in its short history will be
holding an open, public convention to pick
its leader.
The Partido Unidad Social Cristiana (PUSC),
which has been alternating power with the
PLN for decades, only received a 9.3%
approval rate from those polled.
Laura is the favourite of Costa Rican
president, Oscar Arias, although he has had
to keep his opinion quiet after being
censured by the Tribunal Supremo de
Elecciones (TSE) - elections tribunal - last
year for his comments favouring a women to
succeed him.
Chinchilla stepped down from the
vice-presidency and Araya from his mayorship
to seek the party nomination and potentially
become the next president.
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