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Mexican leftist extends lead in presidential race
![Lopez Obrador got 29.5 percent support in the poll conducted from March 16-18]()
Mexican presidential Lopez Obrador got 29.5 percent support in the poll conducted from March 16-18
Mexican presidential contender Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has stretched his lead over rivals heading into the July 1 election, a voter survey by polling firm Mitofsky showed late on Thursday.
Lopez Obrador, a left-wing former Mexico City mayor, got 29.5 percent support in the poll conducted from March 16-18, up from 27.1 percent in a previous Mitofsky survey last month.
Running second was Ricardo Anaya, former chairman of the conservative National Action Party, who heads a right-left alliance. His support slipped 1.1 percentage points to 21.2 percent.
In third place was Jose Antonio Meade of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), who fell back by 1.6 percentage points to 16.4 percent, the poll showed.
The dip in support for Anaya comes after several weeks of accusations by opponents that he had engaged in financial wrongdoing linked to property deals in his home state of Queretaro in central Mexico. Anaya denies this.
