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PRI Gains Ground Against Ruling PAN in Mexico
(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) continues to garner the highest level of support in Mexico, according to a poll by Consulta Mitofsky. 32.4 per cent would vote for the PRI in the next election to the Chamber of Deputies, up 5.3 points since June.
The governing National Action Party (PAN) is second with 24.5 per cent, followed by the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) with 10.8 per cent. Almost three-in-ten respondents are undecided.
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. 21, Calderón defended his anti-drug policies, saying, "Our youth is literally chained to addictions and they end up working for a master, who is the person who controls drugs. They are forced to transform their family life and their social life precisely because they become slaves to addiction."
The legislative mid-term election is scheduled for Jul. 5, 2009.
Polling Data
Which party would you vote for in the next election to the Chamber of Deputies?
|
Sept. 2008 |
Jun. 2008 |
Mar. 2008 |
|
|
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) |
32.4% |
27.1% |
27.2% |
|
National Action Party (PAN) |
24.5% |
25.1% |
25.8% |
|
Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) |
10.8% |
13.1% |
15.0% |
|
Other |
2.8% |
2.7% |
1.8% |
|
None of these / Not sure |
29.5% |
32.0% |
30.2% |
Source: Consulta Mitofsky
Methodology: Face-to-face interviews with 1,000 Mexican adults, conducted from Sept. 25 to Sept. 28, 2008. Margin of error is 3.1 per cent.