(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) could emerge victorious after tomorrow’s legislative ballot in Mexico, according to a poll by Reforma. 38 per cent of respondents would support the PRI in tomorrow’s election to the Chamber of Deputies.
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) – The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) could emerge victorious after tomorrow’s legislative ballot in Mexico, according to a poll by Reforma. 38 per cent of respondents would support the PRI in tomorrow’s election to the Chamber of Deputies.
The governing National Action Party (PAN) is second with 33 per cent, followed by the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) with 14 per cent.
The PAN’s Vicente Fox ended 71 years of uninterrupted rule by the PRI in the 2000 presidential election, winning a six-year term with 42.5 per cent of the vote.
Mexican voters chose their new president in July 2006. Official results placed Felipe Calderón of the PAN as the winner with 36.68 per cent of all cast ballots, followed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the PRD with 36.11 per cent, and Roberto Madrazo of the PRI with 22.71 per cent. Calderón—a former energy secretary—took over as Mexico’s head of state in December.
In the July 2006 legislative election, the PAN secured 206 seats in the 500-member Chamber of Deputies, followed by a PRD-led alliance with 160 lawmakers, and a coalition of the PRI and the Green Environmentalist Party (PVEM) with 121 mandates.
On Jul. 2, PRD Senate leader Carlos Navarrete expressed disappointment with López Obrador—who has voiced support for a candidate from the Workers Party (PT) in a Mexico City borough while shunning the PRD nominee—saying, "I don’t understand, because he is not leaving the PRD, but he calls on people to vote for other parties, so we don’t really know where he’s heading."
The legislative mid-term election will take place tomorrow.
Polling Data
Which party would you vote for in the next election to the Chamber of Deputies?
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Jun. 2009
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May 2009
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Apr. 2009
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Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)
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38%
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37%
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37%
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National Action Party (PAN)
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33%
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31%
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32%
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Democratic Revolution Party (PRD)
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14%
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16%
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15%
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Green Environmentalist Party (PVEM)
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7%
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6%
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9%
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Workers Party (PT)
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3%
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4%
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3%
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Convergence for Democracy (CD)
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2%
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3%
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1%
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New Alliance Party (PNA)
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2%
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2%
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2%
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Social Democratic Party (PSD)
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1%
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1%
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1%
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Source: Reforma
Methodology: Face-to-face interviews with 1,515 Mexican registered voters, conducted from Jun. 26 to Jun. 28, 2009. Margin of error is 2.8 per cent.
