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Guatemala's Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) has set Sept. 9 as the date for general elections and Nov. 4 as the date for a second round, if needed. The country will elect a president, vice president, 158 deputies to the unicameral legislature, 20 to the Parlamento Centroamericano (Parlacen), and 332 mayors. Polls indicate that Alvaro Colom of the Unidad Nacional de la Esperanza (UNE) is the leading presidential candidate with 26.50% of the intended vote. In second place is Otto Perez Molina of the Partido Patriotica (PP) with 10.08%, in a technical tie with Alejandro Giammattei of the Gran Alianza Nacional (GANA) with 9.58%. Trailing badly in the 14-candidate field is Nobel Prize winner Rigoberta Menchu, with 2.75.
The center-left Colom has picked up ground in this late-April Vox Latina survey for Prensa Libre, the second of ten scheduled surveys. The first poll in March found him leading right-wing Perez Molina by just 10.71 points.
As is frequently the case in the highly stratified society that is Guatemala, voting preference breaks down along ethnic, age, income, and...
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