Honduran president favoured to win November election - poll

Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is running to be the presidential candidate for the ruling Partido Nacional (National Party), gives a speech to supporters after early primary elections in Tegucigalpa, Honduras March 12, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Cabrera

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who is seeking an unprecedented second consecutive term in office, is the favourite to win the November election, an opinion poll showed on Tuesday.

Hernandez, of the conservative National Party, polled 36 percent support, double the 18 percent of his nearest rival Luis Zelaya, an academic running for the centre-right Liberal Party, according to a CID/Gallup poll in local newspaper La Prensa.