Protests Hammer Mexican President's Popularity in Polls as Elections Loom Reuters | |
December 1, 2014 |
Mexico: Protests planned to mark Peña's second year in office (teleSUR English)
MEXICO CITY - The popularity of Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has sunk amid concerns about his handling of security problems and corruption, polls showed on Monday, in a sign that his ruling party could lose ground in elections next year.
Polls noted the sharp drop in his approval rating since the apparent massacre of 43 trainee teachers students and a conflict of interest scandal involving a home being purchased by the first lady.
The approval rating of Pena Nieto fell from 50 percent in August to 39 percent in November in a poll by daily Reforma, while paper El Universal showed 41 percent approved of his leadership in November compared to 46 percent in August.
Reforma noted it was the lowest approval rating of a president recorded since 1996 as then President Ernesto Zedillo was struggling to contain a financial and economic crisis.
El Universal's data showed the president was at his most unpopular since assuming office on Dec. 1, 2012 for a six-year term.
The sharp drop in popularity could undermine the hopes of his Institutional Revolutionary Party to gain ground in congressional and local elections next year. The PRI holds a plurality in both houses of Congress, but it lacks a majority.
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Photo: Estela de Carlotto (L), president of the Argentine human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza of May), addresses the media while sitting next to family members of the missing 43 students, in Mexico City November 30, 2014. Reuters
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