Mexico Elections Challenged As President's Approval Hits 20-Year Low Dimitra DeFotis - Barrons
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Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto faces ‘perfect storm’ of problems (PBS NewsHour)

Mexican voters in early June will elect members of Mexico’s 500-seat lower house, as well as governors in 9 states, and local assemblymen and mayors in 16 states. Approval ratings for Mexico’s president, Enrique Pena Nieto, are at a 20-year low. His task: avoiding corruption scandals as he tries to push anti-corruption reform.

Teneo Intelligence Analyst Nicholas Watson writes:

“The PRD in particular is divided and adrift. … The PRD’s priority in June will be to preserve its position in Mexico City, its electoral bastion. The National Action Party (PAN) and PRD each suffered from the Iguala backlash … PAN is in a better state of health than the PRD [but] has its own internal divisions … There is still a question mark over whether elections can go ahead in Guerrero and Michoacan as the security situation remains problematic across several municipalities in both states. … . Concerted action from Pena Nieto could also help the government regain the initiative that it lost post-Iguala … The most obvious starting point is for advances in the anti-corruption legislation; congressional sessions recommence on 1 February. However, the government has consistently stumbled in its response to rule of law and corruption scandals of Q4/2014, partly because they implicated prominent government figures … Pena Nieto’s approval rating is the lowest of any president in the last 20 years. However, the electoral outlook is much less clear-cut, and a PRI rout is not inevitable”

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