Gallup Poll: Ousted leader with 46 pct approval

According to a July 15, 2009 Associate Press article

Wed Jul 15, 6:39 pm ET
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – More results from a Gallup survey in Honduras were published Wednesday, showing ousted President Manuel Zelaya remains more popular than his interim replacement Roberto Micheletti.
The nationwide survey — which was done after Zelaya was sent into forced exile in a military coup — shows Zelaya with 46 percent favorable opinion and 44 unfavorable, compared to 30 favorable and 49 unfavorable for Micheletti.
Earlier findings from the same poll were released to The Associated Press by Gallup after La Prensa, a leading Honduran newspaper, published some of the results on Thursday. They showed that 46 percent of Hondurans opposed Zelaya's removal, 41 percent approved of it and 13 percent were unsure or declined to answer.
Feelings toward both leaders have changed dramatically since February, when a clear majority favored Zelaya over Micheletti, then the head of Congress. A Gallup survey conducted from February 3 to February 8 showed Zelaya with 53 percent favorable and 36 unfavorable, compared to 23 favorable and 58 unfavorable for Micheletti.
The more recent survey also asked Hondurans whether they felt Zelaya's removal was justified because he had pushed to add a question on a national ballot about whether to have a constitutional assembly, which the nation's highest court had ruled to be unconstitutional. Forty-one percent of respondents said this did justify his removal, while 28 percent said it didn't and 31 percent were unsure or declined to answer.
The second survey was done from June 30 to July 4. Both surveys had error margins of 2.8 percentage points, according to CID-Gallup, which is based in Costa Rica.