M & R Consultants “Opposition Poll”

http://www.laprensa.com.ni/2010/07/14/politica/31489

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Survey conducted between May 19 and June 28. Margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percent and a reliability of 95.5 percent. Sample size is 1,600 respondents older than 16 years, from urban, semirural and rural areas throughout the country.

Aleman, (despite being “Pact Man”) is perceived as opposition leader (note: survey completed before he was acclaimed as leader). However; Eduardo Montealegre is the politician with whom respondents "most identified".

81% have a negative view of the work of the “big 2” opposition leaders and feel they are losing ground to the independents (a vote splitter). They have had months to achieve unification, have failed in that and have not even defined an inter-party election process.

64 percent disapprove of the work in the National Assembly and only 7.5 percent approved.

59.3 percent disapproved of the work of the CSE (Superior Electoral Council) with 19.3 percent approving.

The Supreme Court of Justice (CSJ) got a 56.4 percent disapproval with only 21.2 percent who approved. (When the FSLN supporters were separated, 43.7 percent of them approved of the work of the CSJ).

Excluding the FSLN participants, the survey says that 64.8 percent do not identify with any national politician.

25.5 percent said neither Aleman nor Montealegre is "their" leader of the opposition.

Here, in a nutshell is a comment from the article about the lack of opposition:

People see a discredited opposition, fighting for personal interests and not taking into account the interests of the public and people see that the only politician, who walks in the non-Sandinista campaign rallies, is Aleman, a hard worker, yet a man that does not represent them.

That about sums it up for me.

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