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[SIZE=2] Mexican leftist ahead in presidential race: poll[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexican leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador inched ahead in the presidential race, according to an opinion poll published on Tuesday, after accusing his rival's brother-in-law of tax dodging. [/SIZE][SIZE=2]
The survey in Milenio newspaper gave Lopez Obrador 34.2 percent, up almost 1 percentage point from a poll by the daily in late May. The conservative ruling party's candidate Felipe Calderon had 31 percent, down 2 points.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Most other recent polls have put the pair in a tie before the July 2 vote. The El Universal newspaper gave Calderon a three-point lead in a survey on Monday.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Lopez Obrador said in a live televised debate last week that Calderon's businessman brother-in-law evaded paying taxes and received large government contracts while Calderon was energy minister.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]The leftist former mayor of Mexico City later dumped boxes of what he said were documents to prove his claim at Calderon's campaign headquarters in a stunt that won him media coverage.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Calderon has repeatedly denied any misconduct, but the scandal is tarnishing his image. His campaign has put strong emphasis on his "clean hands" in a country stained with corruption.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Investment bank Merrill Lynch said Lopez Obrador has gained support since the debate with attack advertising against Calderon.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]"Lopez Obrador appears to have won the post-debate with charges that Calderon used his position as energy minister to grant government contracts to the Internet services companies of his brother-in-law, Diego Zavala," it said in a note.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]"An unprecedented 180 TV spots in only two days promoting charges against Calderon appear to have paid off," it said.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Tuesday's poll had a margin of error of 2.6 points, so the leading two candidates are technically still very close.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Roberto Madrazo, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was close behind in third place in the poll at 29.6 percent, almost unchanged from his support in late May.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Pollster Maria de las Heras, who carried out the Milenio poll for the newspaper, said she calculated that Lopez Obrador had gained around 700,000 supporters since the July 6 debate and Calderon lost a similar amount of votes.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]"Lopez Obrador gained in the last few weeks and this poll confirms to me that this race continues to be very close among the top three candidates," she said.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=2]Milenio interviewed 1,500 people in a five-day period after the debate for the survey.[/SIZE]
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