Credit:UNESCO

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - People in Mexico express little confidence in the work of the country’s federal government and lawmakers, according to a poll by Demotecnia published in Milenio. Only 22 per cent of respondents say the cabinet is performing well, and less than 20 per cent feel the same way about the country’s senators and deputies.

Mexican voters chose their new president in July 2006. Official results placed Felipe Calderón of the National Action Party (PAN) as the winner with 36.68 per cent of all cast ballots, followed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) with 36.11 per cent, and Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (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 Sept. 8, the Mexican government revised economic growth estimates for 2008 to 2.4 per cent from 2.8 per cent, saying that a crisis in the United States is greatly affecting the national economy. Mexican finance minister Agustín Carstens explained the changes in the forecast, saying, "Without a doubt, this year has been tougher than we originally expected."

Polling Data

I am going to mention some figures in Mexican politics. For each one, please tell me if they are doing a good or bad job.

Source: Demotecnia / Milenio
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 500 Mexican adults, conducted on Sept. 6, 2008. Margin of error is 4.5 per cent.

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