Mexico's Sheinbaum widens lead in race for ruling party candidacy -poll

FILE PHOTO: Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum holds a rally at Macroplaza Iztapalapa, pursuing to be the ruling MORENA party's candidate for the 2024 presidential election, in Mexico City, Mexico, August 1, 2023. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Former Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum slightly extended her lead in the race to become the Mexican ruling party's candidate for the 2024 presidential election, an opinion poll conducted through early August showed on Tuesday.

According to the July 30-Aug 4 survey by polling firm Parametria, 32% of the general public supported Sheinbaum to be candidate for the leftist ruling National Regeneration Movement(MORENA), up from 30% in a poll conducted a month earlier.