Nicaragua Favors Ortega
Nicaraguan Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) presidential candidate Daniel Ortega is still ahead in polls on Saturday, although he has not reached the necessary votes to win in the first round on November 5.

According to results published on Saturday, on El Nuevo Diario, the Sandinista leader obtained support of 27.3 percent of the electorate of Managua, a city where the survey was carried out from July 21-23.

Presidential candidate of dissident Nicaraguan Liberal Alliance (ALN) Eduardo Montealegre, ex member of the Constitutional Liberal Party (PLC), is in the second position, with 25.4 percent.

Edmundo Jarquin, who replaced late Herty Lewites as

presidential candidate for Sandinista Reviving Movement (MRS), was favored by 24.8 percent of the vote intention among the citizens of the capital.

PLC representative Jose Rizo appears a little out of the way in the contest. He would be voted for by only 12.9 percent of those polled.

Eden Pastora, who represents the fifth electoral option for the Nicaraguans at the polls on November 5, was favored by 1.7 percent.

There was eight percent of hidden or indecisive vote, as shown by the survey. According to the daily, the MRS polled

528 people over 16 and has an error margin of around 4.3 percent.