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

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

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.