Left-wing canidate ahead in mayoral race.

From Miami Herald Wire Services- BOGOTA -- A left wing opposition party held a llarge advantage in the race for mayor of Colombia's capital entering Sundays election, after violence marred regional campaignes across the nation.
While conservative President Alvaro Uribe remains widely popular, polls indicate that the party he defeated for the presidency last year may take the second most important elective post in the country - Bogota's mayor.
Samuel Moreno, grandson of a military dictator, held a lead 40 to 22 percent over independent former Mayor Enrigue Penalosa, according to a poll published Saturday by the newspaper El Tiempo. The survey by the Datexeco company had a margin of error of 2.7 percentage points.
With nearly seven million people, the capital is home to a sixth of Colombia's population.

By b bruce on Oct 28, 2007, 12:39 in Politics & the war.

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poco says on Oct 29, 2007, 22:48: Quote: Samuel Moreno, grandson of a military dictator, held a lead 40 to 22 percent over independent former Mayor Enrigue Penalosa, I guess this is a case of mines over mimes. "Violence is the first refuge of the incompetent" - Isaac Asimov

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