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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | May 2005 
Poll: Support For Mexico City Mayor Grows
 Reuters
| | Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador waves to supporters in the Mexican capital last month. |
Mexico City - Support in the Mexican capital for leftist presidential hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador hit a record high as he fought the government for the right to run at 2006 elections, a poll showed Monday.
Mayor Lopez Obrador received a popularity rating of 84 percent in the city, up from 76 percent in the same poll three months ago, according to the survey in the Reforma newspaper.
The poll was taken at the height of a fight between Lopez Obrador and President Vicente Fox's government, which had tried to put the mayor on trial in a minor legal case that could have forced him out of the July 2006 elections.
Lopez Obrador won the battle last week when Fox caved in to public pressure and said that the mayor could be a candidate despite the charge of contempt of court hanging over him.
Fox also sacked Attorney General Rafael Macedo to help end the political crisis over the mayor's candidacy.
"We are in a period of truce, of a lowering of tensions," Lopez Obrador told a news conference Monday.
In a national poll released last week, Fox's approval ratings fell to 60 percent from 64 percent because of what was seen as his persecution of the mayor.
The leftist, popular in Mexico City for handing out pensions to the elderly and carrying out public works, had portrayed himself as a victim of the government and big business during the dispute.
Monday's poll was carried out in mid-April among 853 people interviewed face-to-face. It has a margin of error of 3.5 percent points.
It showed that while the mayor was personally more popular, his administration was reckoned to be doing a worse job fighting crime, corruption and poverty in the city. |
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