Poll Shows Pena Nieto's Ruling PRI in the Lead Ahead of Sunday's Mid-Terms Reuters
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PRI in Lead Ahead of Mexico Mid-Terms (wochit News)

Mexico's ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is in the lead ahead of Sunday's mid-term elections, a poll released shows, potentially returning President Enrique Pena Nieto his razor-thin lower house majority.

On Sunday, Pena Nieto faces his first national vote since winning the presidency in 2012. The lower house, nine governorships and various state legislatures are up for grabs.

The new poll, released yesterday by pollster Consulta Mitofsky, showed that 32 percent of those surveyed would vote for Pena Nieto's centrist PRI, eight points ahead of the center-right National Action Party.

The leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) had 17 per cent, while its recently formed offshoot Morena, led by ex-presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, was on 10 per cent, the poll found.

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