Weekly Report - 6 April 2004

With the presidential elections less than a month-and-a-half away, President Hip ¢lito Mejí­a appears to be making insufficient headway to close the gap with poll frontrunner Leonel Fernández ― even aided by a light fall in support for Fernández. Some pollsters have already gone out on a limb, predicting that a first-round victory for Fernández is almost a certainty.