MEXICO DF (Reuters) – The opposition presidential candidate Enrique Peña Nieto, of the PRI, is polling at 48% of those who said they are likely to vote in the election in July. This opinion poll result was published Monday by the newspaper El Universal.
The candidate of the PAN political party, Josefina Vázquez Mota, is in 2nd place in the poll with 32 percent, followed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate from the a coalition of left wings political parties, with 20%.
The eventual triumph of Peña Nieto in the Jule 1 election would bring the PRI political party back to power. They have governed Mexico for more than 7 decades up until the year 2000, when PAN took the presidency,
The poll, executed by the firm Buendía and Laredo, was done with 1,000 people between the 8th and 13th of February and has a margin of error of +- 3.5 percentage points.
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The wave of drug cartel violence has increased the number of critics of the strategy that President Felipe Calderón is using to combat this scourge, plus the addition the weakness of the economy, are among the reasons that Peña Nieto is up in the polls, according to analysts.
Editors Note: The PRI candidate has said he will stand down the Army. This could bring an end to the violence in Mexico.
dateline: Mexico City, 20 February 2012
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