Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's Popularity Slips Despite Legislative Wins Joshua Partlow and Gabriela Martinez - The Washington Post
go to original September 4, 2014

“All these reforms will create more jobs and increase the purchasing power of our people,” Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto wrote recently in the Financial Times. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images)

MEXICO CITY — With movie-star ease and glamour, President ­Enrique Peña Nieto has seemed to feel no pain as he goes about grasping all the third rails of Mexican politics.

Peña Nieto has pushed through the legislative thicket into a new landscape few thought possible: where American oil companies will soon be drilling in Mexican waters and where Carlos Slim’s grip on the telephone monopoly that made him the richest man in the world has slipped.

In all, 85 changes have occurred to the constitution during Peña  Nieto’s 1 1/2 years in office. Higher taxes on junk food, confrontations with the teachers union and more political positions for women, plus the telecom and energy reforms. He has cobbled together an alliance of the three largest political parties. Foreign investment is high.

Yet his popularity is flagging. A poll released this week by the independent Consulta Mitofsky firm showed that his approval rating had fallen to 47 percent, its lowest point so far and down from 54 percent when he took office. Last week, the Pew Research Center found that his negative ratings have risen by nine points in the past year.

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