President Santos to win 2014 election [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

President Santos to win 2014 election
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos will be re-elected in 2014 according to nationwide poll released tomorrow.

Despite an approval rate as low as 29 per cent, Santos` candidature appears unstoppable as Colombians show even less faith in his likely opponents, right-winger Oscar Ivan Zuluaga and leftie Clara Lopez.

The poll commissioned by Colombia`s top media outlets, Caracol, RCN, and others, reveals less than a third will vote for Santos in the first round. Santos will therefore have to go to a head to head run-off with the second placed politician (candidates must secure over 50% to win in the first round). But this will be enough to see off Zuluaga who languishes on 14%, while support for Lopez struggles to break double figures.

In the absence of a serious alternative, Santos` eventual triumph seems inevitable.

Champaign corks are not yet popping the Casa de Nariño, but the poll comes just two weeks before Santos must announce whether he will put his name forward as a candidate next May. And with last week`s positive news from Havana, where the government is negotiating with the FARC guerrillas to end 50 years of conflict, the road to victory is becoming clearer.

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