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(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Mexico’s long-governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)—now in opposition—is now the most popular political organization in the country, according to a poll by Buendía & Laredo published in El Universal. 44 per cent of respondents would vote for the PRI in the next election to the Chamber of Deputies.

The governing National Action Party (PAN) is behind with 34 per cent, followed by the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) with 19 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 Oct. 5, the PRI managed to win 40 out of 81 mayoral elections across the country and made gains in local legislatures. PRI lower house leader Emilio Gamboa Patrón commented on his party’s victories, saying, "People are realizing that PRI has the best men and women to govern the country. We had distanced ourselves from the people, from their social needs, but we have got closer again."

The legislative mid-term election is scheduled for Jul. 5, 2009.

Polling Data

Which party would you vote for in the Chamber of Deputies election scheduled for Jul. 5, 2009?

Source: Buendía & Laredo / El Universal
Methodology: Face-to-face interviews with 800 registered Mexican voters, conducted from Sept. 26 to Sept. 29, 2008. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

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