Politics: Midterm Race Tightens

MEXICO - Report 16 Apr 2015 by Guillermo Valdes and Esteban Manteca

Executive Summary With the general election campaign underway, the Institutional Revolutionary Party may feel more wrath from voters this year than incumbent parties are accustomed to in midterm elections. But due to a relative dearth of good polling data there is a considerable lack of visibility as to how the vote will turn out on the congressional level, a deficit that is even more apparent in many state and local contests. An underperforming economy and an ongoing string of scandals involving accusations of corruption and conflicts of interest at the highest level of government have sou...

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