Fox favorite headed for Mexico primary defeat-poll
A former Cabinet minister seen as President Vicente Fox’s favorite for the July 2006 elections, might lose the ruling party’s primaries this weekend and be forced out of the race, according to a poll on Wednesday.
The Reforma newspaper poll of National Action Party members likely to vote in Sunday’s final round of presidential primaries put Santiago Creel way behind Felipe Calderon, a former energy minister who has clashed with Fox.
The poll gave Calderon 54 percent of Sunday’s vote in 13 states and the capital city, against former interior minister Creel’s 29 percent.
A win of that size would give Calderon victory without having to go to a November run-off.
Creel, who resigned as interior minister in June to seek the conservative PAN’s nomination, is often blamed for Fox’s failure to push economic reforms through Congress, which was part of his ministerial brief.
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PRI Primary Too Close to Call in Mexico
Supporters of Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) are almost equally divided between two possible presidential nominees, according to a poll by Reforma. 45 per cent of respondents will vote for former Tabasco governor Roberto Madrazo in the primary contest, while 44 per cent would back former State of Mexico governor Arturo Montiel.
The PRI ruled Mexico for 71 consecutive years, losing its first presidential election in 2000 with candidate Francisco Labastida. Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN) won a six-year term with 42.5 per cent of the vote. In 2000, Labastida was
Lopez Obrador's Lead Cut in Mexico Presidential Poll
Former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the frontrunner in presidential opinion polls for more than two years, lost ground in a November poll, the first since the major parties chose their candidates.
The nationwide poll by Consulta Mitofsky found Lopez Obrador's likely voters fell to 29.5 percent of those surveyed from 37.9 percent in August. Support for President Vicente Fox's National Action Party grew, with 24.4 percent saying they'd vote for Felipe Calderon compared with backing of 20.2 percent in August for the party's then-leading candidate, former Interior Minister Santiago Creel.
Mexico 28-day yield seen rising at weekly auction
The yield on Mexicos benchmark one-month T-bills was expected to rise on Tuesday as investors rattled by recent peso volatility struggled to predict the U.S. Federal Reserves next monetary policy move.
Yields on three- and six-month T-bills, or Cetes, were also seen rising, but the yield on the governments 10-year peso bond was expected to change little from the last time it was auctioned on Aug. 15. according to a Reuters poll.
Following is a table comparing previous rates at the central banks primary auction with expectations for this weeks sale and the expected change
Mexico's conservative National Action Party holds second round of presidential primary
Mexico's ruling National Action Party held the second stage of its presidential primary elections on Sunday, with party members in eight southern states choosing between three candidates for the nomination.
Former energy secretary Felipe Calderon won a surprise victory in the first of three primary elections on Sept. 11, but former interior secretary Santiago Creel has pressed hard to try to recoup what was long seen as his favorite status.
A third former member of President Vicente Fox's cabinet, former environment secretary Alberto Cardenas – who ran a distant third
Calderon Gains Support in Mexico Presidential Poll
Felipe Calderon, Mexican President Vicente Foxs former energy minister, gained support among the countrys voters in an opinion poll taken after the June 6 presidential debate.
Support for Calderon, the National Action Partys candidate, rose to 37 percent from 36 percent a week ago, while backing for former Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the Party of the Democratic Revolutions candidate, fell to 34 percent from 36 percent, according to a poll released by the Mexico City-based newspaper El Universal. The poll has an margin of error of plus or minus 3.4
Mexico's Roberto Madrazo Wins PRI Presidential Primary Election
Mexico's Roberto Madrazo, the former governor of the state of Tabasco, won the primary election for the presidential nomination of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, the country's largest political party.
Madrazo had 91 percent of the votes with the ballots from 74 percent of polling stations counted, according to the party's Web site. Everardo Moreno, Madrazo's only rival after former state of Mexico Governor Arturo Montiel dropped out of the contest, had 9 percent of the vote.
Mariano Palacios, president of the party, declared Madrazo the winner as of 11:30 p.m. New York time
Mexico ex-mayor launches poll bid
The former mayor of Mexico City has registered his candidacy for next year's presidential race.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador signed up as a candidate for the Democratic Revolution Party's nomination, after stepping down as mayor on Friday.
Opinion polls suggest he is currently the favourite to win the poll.
Earlier this year he was the subject of a failed legal attempt to bar him from standing. About one million Mexicans rallied in the capital to support him.
"We know what needs to be done to make things better in this country," he said on Saturday.
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Mexico presidential race down to dead heat - poll
The conservative ruling party candidate to become Mexican president next year has raced to a virtual tie with the leftist former Mexico City mayor who had been the clear front-runner, a new poll showed on Monday.
The poll by the daily newspaper Reforma put Felipe Calderon of the National Action Party, or PAN, within 1 percentage point of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Calderon had 28 percent support with Lopez Obrador just ahead on 29 percent.
In third place with 21 percent was Roberto Madrazo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico
Surprise victor may win again in Mexico
Mexico's former energy secretary appeared headed toward another victory in Sunday's second round of the ruling National Action Party's three-part presidential primary.
Felipe Calderon scored a surprise victory over former Interior Secretary Santiago Creel in the first primary round in September, and with about 92 percent of the votes counted from Sunday's second round, Calderon had a comfortable lead.
Calderon got 50 percent of the votes that had been counted, with Creel taking 36 percent; former Environment Secretary Alberto Cardenas had 13 percent.
Sunday's election offered more than 300,000 party members in eight southern states from Yucatan
Mexico: 51% of poll respondents think Hugo Chavez is to blame for the rift
Many adults in Mexico believe the Venezuelan President is responsible for the recent spat between the two countries, according to a poll by Milenio ... 51% of respondents think Hugo Chavez is to blame for the rift.
Conversely, 22% of respondents say Mexican president Vicente Fox is responsible.
The problems began earlier this month during the Summit of the Americas in Argentina. Chavez expressed displeasure with the proposed region-wide free trade agreement backed by the United States. Chavez favors the exclusively South American free trade zone, known as Mercosur,
