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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | July 2007 
Poll: Mexican President's Support Widens a Year After Election
 Associated Press
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| | If Mexico repeated last year's election today, President Felipe Calderon would win again — this time by a much wider margin. |
Mexico City - If Mexico repeated last year's election today, President Felipe Calderon would win again — this time by a much wider margin, according to a poll published Monday.
The Ipsos-Bimsa survey published in the El Universal newspaper showed that if the July 2, 2006 vote was held now, Calderon, of the conservative National Action Party, would win 45 percent of the vote.
The poll had last year's runner up, leftist former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, garnering 31 percent, and Roberto Madrazo, of the center-left Institutional Revolutionary Party, with 20 percent.
Calderon won the five-way 2006 election with less than 36 percent of the vote, defeating Lopez Obrador by about 230,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.
Lopez Obrador cried fraud and has refused to accept the election results, instead establishing his own "parallel government" with himself as "legitimate president."
On Sunday he led a mass rally in Mexico City's main square to re-ignite his flagging government-in-resistance, drawing tens of thousands of supporters.
Calderon has seen his popularity rise since taking office in a storm of protests Dec. 1, in part due to a nationwide battle against drug trafficking.
The poll was based on personal interviews with 826 eligible voters nationwide from June 21-26 and had a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points. |
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