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Saca Still Leads Salvadorian Race

August 28, 2003

(CPOD) Aug. 28, 2003 - Media businessman Antonio Saca is the top choice for voters in El Salvador, according to a poll by CID-Gallup published in El Diario de Hoy. 44 per cent of respondents will support Saca in the next presidential election.

Schafik Handal of the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (FMLN) is second, with 20 per cent. This Sunday, Handal is expected to appoint Guillermo Mata as his vice-presidential nominee. Former FMLN member Hector Silva has been nominated by the Christian Democrat Party (PDC) and the United Democratic Center (CDU), and sits at nine per cent.

El Salvador endured a 12-year civil war, which ended with a 1992 U.N.-brokered peace deal that dismissed dozens of military officers and called on the FMLN to lay down their arms. 70,000 people died during the conflict, and an estimated 1 million Salvadorians left the country. The next presidential elections are slated for Mar. 21, 2004.

Polling Data

Which of these candidates will you vote for in the next presidential elections?

Antonio Saca (ARENA)

44%

Schafik Handal (FMLN)

20%

Hector Silva (PDC-CDU)

9%

Undecided

21%


Source: CID Galup / El Diario de Hoy
Methodology: Interviews to 1,220 Salvadorian voters, conducted from Aug. 15 to Aug. 19, 2003. Margin of error is 2.5 per cent.

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