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President Zelaya Drops to 25% in Honduras
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Manuel Zelaya is continuing to lose popularity with the Honduran public, according to a poll by CID-Gallup published in La Prensa. 25 per cent of respondents think the president is doing a good or very good job, down nine points since June.
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 Oct. 14, Zelaya suggested that illegal drug use should be allowed in the country, saying, "We should look for a way to start a process of legalization (...) so that a person who decides to acquire this sickness of drug use can be considered as a sick person. (...) This way, instead of persecuting and killing drug traffickers, we can invest those resources in education."
Polling Data
How would you rate the performance of Manuel Zelaya as president?
|
Oct. 2008 |
Jun. 2008 |
Feb. 2008 |
|
|
Good / Very good |
25% |
34% |
38% |
|
Neither |
39% |
32% |
31% |
|
Bad / Very bad |
36% |
34% |
31% |
Source: CID-Gallup / La Prensa
Methodology: Interviews to 1,356 Honduran adults, conducted from Sept. 27 to Oct. 4, 2008. Margin of error is 2.8 per cent.