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Lukewarm Reviews for Zelaya in Honduras
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Fewer people in Honduras have a positive opinion of the way Manuel Zelaya has handled his duties, according to a poll by CID-Gallup published in La Prensa. 33 per cent of respondents rate the president’s performance as good or very good, down six points since June 2006.
In November 2005, Zelaya—candidate of the Liberal Party (PL)—won the presidential election with 49.9 per cent of all cast ballots, defeating National Party (PN) nominee Porfirio Lobo Sosa. Less than 69,000 votes separated the two contenders. Zelaya took office in January 2006.
On Sept. 25, in his address to the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, Zelaya decried the policies of both the European Union (EU) and the United States on immigration and commerce. The Honduran president said international trade is "unequal" and "unfair", adding, "The exaggerated tariffs the banana production from our region gets in the EU are only one more example of the obvious inequalities. (...) If we do not adequately reorient free trade, which is so freely advertised, it can become a fallacy."
Polling Data
How would you rate the performance of Manuel Zelaya as president?
|
Sept. 2007 |
Jun. 2006 |
|
|
Good / Very good |
33% |
39% |
|
Neither |
44% |
35% |
|
Bad / Very bad |
23% |
24% |
Source: CID-Gallup / La Prensa
Methodology: Interviews to 1,227 Honduran adults, conducted from Sept. 11 to Sept. 17, 2007. Margin of error is 2.8 per cent.