Gustavo Petro, presidential candidate of the leftist Historical Pact, has 32% of the intention to vote for the elections on May 29 in Colombia. This according to a poll published this Sunday in which the rightist Federico “Fico” Gutierrez reaches 23%.
The survey by the National Consulting Center, the first following last Sunday’s legislative elections and commissioned by Semana magazine, shows that Petro is nine points ahead of Gutiérrez, of the Equipo por Colombia coalition.
Behind Petro and Gutiérrez appear the populist Rodolfo Hernández, former mayor of Bucaramanga, with 10%, the same percentage as the candidate of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, Sergio Fajardo.
The list is completed by the candidates of the Green Oxygen party, Ingrid Betancourt (3%); of the National Salvation Movement, Enrique Gómez (1%), and the former governor of Antioquia, Luis Pérez, who collects less than 0.5% of the voting intention.
Meanwhile, 5% of those surveyed assured that they would vote blank, while 13% answered that they did not know or did not answer.
The survey is released just a week following Sunday’s legislative elections, in which the presidential candidates of the coalitions of the Historical Pact, Team for Colombia and Hope Center were also elected.
Petro won almost 4.5 million votes in the internal consultation of his coalition on Sunday and Gutiérrez obtained more than 2.1 million, while Fajardo barely received more than 720,000 supports.
The survey by the National Consulting Center was conducted between March 18 and 19 among 2,143 people from 45 municipalities in different regions of the country and has a margin of error of 2.1%.
