Bloomberg, 4/23/12
Mexico’s ruling party candidate moved back into second place after her rival in third position threatened to overtake her last week, according to the latest poll ahead of the July 1 vote.
Josefina Vazquez Mota of President Felipe Calderon’s National Action Party won 21.7 percent support and Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who narrowly lost to Calderon in the 2006 election, had 17.2 percent, Grupo Economistas Asociados-ISA said last night in its daily poll. Vazquez Mota had received 17.9 percent backing in the April 19 poll and Lopez Obrador had gained 19.3 percent.
Mexico’s leading presidential candidate, Enrique Pena Nieto of the once-dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, won 36.7 percent support in the survey.
