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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | May 2008 
Ruling PAN, Opposition PRI Even In Mexico
 Angus Reid Global Monitor
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Mexico’s governing National Action Party (PAN) is virtually tied with the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), according to a poll by Ipsos-Bimsa published in El Universal. 37 per cent of respondents would vote for the PRI in the next election to the Chamber of Deputies, while 36 per cent would support PAN candidates.
The opposition Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) is third with 20 per cent, followed by the Green Environmentalist Party (PVEM) with three per cent. Four per cent of respondents would vote for other parties.
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 PRI-PVEM coalition with 121 mandates.
On Apr. 29, the Mexican government said it is willing to hold talks with the Popular Revolutionary Army (EPR). Interior secretary Juan Camilo Mouriño declared: "The federal government is open to dialogue, but only if they [EPR] publicly pledge to end radical acts of sabotage and violence."
The EPR was assembled in 1996, and operates mainly in the state of Guerrero. Throughout 2007, the armed group claimed responsibility for several attacks against state-owned oil facilities and pipelines, as well as a bombing in a department store located in the state of Oaxaca.
The next legislative elections in Mexico are scheduled for Jul. 5, 2009.
Polling Data
Which party would you vote for in the next election to the Chamber of Deputies?
Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) - 37%
National Action Party (PAN) - 36%
Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) - 20%
Green Environmentalist Party (PVEM) - 3%
Other parties - 4%
Source: Ipsos-Bimsa / El Universal
Methodology: Face-to-face interviews with 1,000 Mexican adults, conducted in April 2008. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent. |
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