Kirchner favourite for elections: Surveys

Argentina: The Frente Justicialista para la Victoria headed by ex President Nestor Kirchner is seen today by several surveys as possible winner in Buenos Aires parliament elections slated for next Sunday, June 28.

Only one week before over 10 million voters go to the polls in the province of Buenos Aires, the Center of Studies of Public Opinion (CEOP) expects Kirchner to win with a lead of seven points.

The former president and his ticket companion, Buenos Aires governor Daniel Scioli, have a 34.6 percent of vote intention and a firm tendency to keep increasing, indicated the CEOP.

According to the survey, whose results were reported by news agency Telam, Union-PRO, which promotes the candidates Francisco de Narvaez and Felipe Sol , should come in second with a 27.1 percent.

Third in vote intention appears, with 15.5 percentage points, the Acuerdo Civico y Social, whose leading candidates are Margarita Stolbizer and Ricardo Alfonso, who have lost ground over the last month.

For its part, consulting firm Analogias gives the leading position to the Kirchner candidates with 57 points, five more than De Narvaez and 17 percent over Stolbizer.

On June 15, the consulting firm Equis anticipated that Kirchnerism would obtain the highest percentage of votes throughout the country (about 35.1 percent), although this would be below the interm‚diate elections of 2005 (38.7).

Buenos Aires, Jun 21 (Prensa Latina)