Santo Domingo.- The 2012 presidential elections will be a photo-finish between ruling PLD party candidate Danilo Medina and Hipólito Mejía, of the opposition PRD party, according to a Diario Libre-Greenberg poll.
Among the general population Medina leads Mejía by one point (47% to 46%), within the margin of error, while the candidate of the minority party AlPais, Guillermo Moreno gets one percent. It said only a two percent remains undecided.
The survey, whose field work was conducted from February 28 to March 3, also shows a close election among potential voters, with Medina getting 49 percent and Mejía 48 percent.
Each candidate has the support of more than nine of each 10 of their party’s rank-and-file and divide the undecided vote nearly in half (32 to 29 percent in favor of Medina, with the rest undecided).