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27313: Hermantin(News)PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL GAINING SUPPORT (fwd)





Leonie Hermantin

Miami Herald

Posted on Sat, Jan. 21, 2006
BRAZIL  Latin America & Caribbean Briefs
From Miami Herald Wire Services

HAITI
PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL GAINING SUPPORT

SAN JOSE -- Haiti's presidential front-runner, René Préval, has gained ground since November, maintaining a considerable lead over his rivals, according to a poll released to The Associated Press on Friday in Costa Rica.

CID-Gallup Latin America, based in San José, found 37 percent of possible voters surveyed Dec. 5-12 favored the 63-year-old former president. That compared to 10 percent for opposition leader Charles Henry Baker and 8 percent for both Leslie Manigat, a former president and Christian Democrat leader, and Dumarsais Simeus, who was disqualified from the race in December by Haiti's interim government.