Mexican President's Institutional Revolutionary Party Leading Federal Election Polls Howard Koplowitz - IBTimes
go to original May 12, 2015

The party of Enrique Peña Nieto has a 7-point lead over its closest rival heading into the June 7 federal elections. Reuters

Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto’s party has maintained its lead over its rivals with less than a month before Mexico holds elections for its lower chamber of Congress, Reuters reported Tuesday, citing a Consulta Mitofsky poll. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is holding a roughly seven-percentage-point advantage over the National Action Party (PAN), 31.1 percent to 23.6 percent.

The latest poll shows support relatively unchanged between the PRI and the PAN, which was in power from 2000 to 2012. A Parametria poll released in late April had the PRI with 32 percent and the PAN with 24 percent. The Democratic Revolution, a center-left party, was in third with 17.6 percent, while the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), headed by Peña Nieto’s main rival for the presidency, had 10.7 percent support. The center-right Green Party, which is part of a coalition with the PRI, had 6.3 percent.

The PRI holds 207 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of Congress, while the PAN has 114 seats.

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