Riyadh: According to the opinion poll indication on Sunday the Arab world’s preferred democratic nominee Joe Biden in next month’s US Presidential Candidate. Out of 3,097 people polled across 18 Middle East and North African countries, around 39 percent favoured Biden while only 12 percent opted for Trump, according to the survey carried out by British pollster You Gov and commissioned by Saudi daily Arab News.

As per the survey “When asked which candidate would be better for the Arab World if elected president, most believe that neither candidate would fulfil such a description, yet Biden is still considered a better option to Trump.” The November 3 election, in which incumbent Trump is fighting to secure a second term in office, is being closely watched across the Arab world, where the United States plays a key role.

Trump is widely seen as the preferred candidate among a slew of Arab governments, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, for an array of reasons including his tough stance against their regional rival Iran. “If the Arab world were choosing the next president, Biden would win by a landslide,” You Gov’s chief Stephan Shakespeare said to the media. Biden served as vice president in the Obama administration.

The poll suggested Trump’s 2017 decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem proved overwhelmingly unpopular, with 89 percent of Arabs opposing it. Trump won some support in the poll for scrapping an Obama-era nuclear agreement with Tehran and imposing strict sanctions against the Iranian regime, but only 17 percent Arabs felt his stance would made the region safer.