The precandidates of opposition add 28.4% of popular endorsement.

“ Chávez never has faced an election… from a so weak position ”, deduces of the study the director of Datanálisis. Photo AFP

Luis Vicente Leon, director of the company/signature, said that the study that carried out the past month showed that only 25.7% of the survey ones were safe to vote by Chávez if the elections were in February of the 2011.

The candidates of the opposition obtained an endorsement of 28.4% altogether, whereas 34% of the survey ones declared to be undecided and 13.2% said that it would not vote by any, according to reveals the study that was realised between 1,300 people between the 26 of January and 5 of February.

The survey, that has an allowable error of 2.7 percentage points, was financed by more than 300 industralists and individuals.

Leon indicated, during an encounter with foreign correspondents, who Chávez continues being the most popular politician in Venezuela with an index of endorsement of around 50%, but did not need the number.

In 2006, when Chávez obtained his second re-election had an endorsement of more than 70%.

“Chávez never has faced an election… from a so weak position”, said Leon when assuring that the scene could change long before the elections of the next year.

Leon said that the survey revealed that it enters the opponents with more popular endorsement is Henrique Capriles, governor of the state Vantage point, with 16.7%; the ex- presidential candidate Manuel Rosales, with 8.9%; Pablo Perez, governor of the western state of Zulia, with 7.4%, and Leopoldo Lopez, ex- mayor of the capital municipality of Chacao, with 6.7%.

Primary for when?
He indicated that the candidate will need time to sell the idea of a change before a president who is 12 years old in the power and that he will look for six more with one second re-election.

“The opposition must have the primary ones at the end of 2011. It cannot be in 2012 because it would arrive at March with just a short time. The competing candidate will need time”, indicated in a meeting with foreign correspondents.

The competing coalition Table of Unit, that reunites about to 30 parties of opposition, decided to choose in primary elections its candidate and the present debate is centered in the date of the consultation, that will be in a period between the 27 of November of 2011 and 11 of March of 2012.

Within the alliance a tendency raises to choose it in 2011, but there are other sectors that they prefer that it is the next year, alerting on a possible wearing down by the months that lack for the presidential elections of December of 2012.

“The unique way that has the opposition to communicate its ideas is through a long campaign”, indicated Leon. (AP/DPA)