Latest SIS Poll: Candidate Abu Mazen Wins 53.4% of Votes
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GAZA, Palestine, December 11, 2004 (IPC Exclusive)--[Official arm of the PA]
A latest SIS poll showed that Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), the Palestine
Liberation Organization's chairman, who is running for the Palestinian
presidential elections, has won further voters' support, reaching in figures
53.4% of those polled by the Gaza-based State Information Service (SIS)

The third of its type held between December 7-8, 2004, the SIS poll
indicated that the other candidates have won variable rates of backing by a
sample group of Palestinians that included 2762, aged above than 18 years
old, of whom 1064 in the Gaza Strip and 1698 others in the West Bank and
east Jerusalem.

Marwan Barghouthi won 18.8%, Mustafa Barghouthi 8.9%, Abdelsatar Qasem 2%,
Tayseer Khaled 1.1%, Hassan Khraisha 1%, Bassam Alsahi 0.8%, Abdulkarim
Shbair 0.2%, Abdulhalim Al-Ashqar 0.1%, Alsayed Baraka 0.4%, while 13.3% of
those polled were undecided as to the one they will vote for.

80.2% of the sample's participants expressed willingness to vote in the
January 9 elections ballot, while 12.6% declined as 7.2% were undecided.

In the Gaza Strip, for instance, 81.9% were willing to vote, 11.7% won't
vote, 6.4%, won't vote compared with 79.1% from the West Bank who showed
readiness to vote , while 13.1% wont, as 7.8% appeared undecided.

The Palestinian people in Gaza Strip, West Bank and East Jerusalem, will
choose in January 9, 2005 their new president, following passing of the late
Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority in November
11, 2004 at the French hospital of Percy in Paris.