On the results of the Mexican Chamber of Deputies election

a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDkB8j64tnPiaTNtjJV81LkWmJJiBl9NbMgTDP-TCLp-Ie3t6hVfAmwIKq4gUnM6rtvuu91OxLPJJyMAkJ6w3Jms2qP9GkqCjg3ezI4jcw7qUOO7dzacLmFnphnTsx400BxGRDfTxRCDH/s1600-h/vote.jpeg"img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 103px; height: 124px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWDkB8j64tnPiaTNtjJV81LkWmJJiBl9NbMgTDP-TCLp-Ie3t6hVfAmwIKq4gUnM6rtvuu91OxLPJJyMAkJ6w3Jms2qP9GkqCjg3ezI4jcw7qUOO7dzacLmFnphnTsx400BxGRDfTxRCDH/s320/vote.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5355424734477406962" border="0" //abr /The a href="http://200.76.75.5/PREP2009/nacionalVPC_B.html" preliminary results /a for the Mexican mid-term elections are out. Fruit and Votes a href="http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=3176" has some commentary on them /a.br /br /The PRI (Instituional Revolutionary Party) which ran Mexico as a span style="font-style: italic;"de facto /spanone-party state until the 1990s has jumped from third to first place. In 2006, it came third in the presidential elections (with around 22%) and third in the Chamber of Deputies elections (with 28%). This time, it got 36.84%. It gained almost 9% from its total at the previous Congressional election.br /br /The PAN (National Action Party) won the 2006 presidential election by a whisker. There was considerable concern that they had won the election by electoral fraud - in a similar way to the way the PRI used to win elections until the 1990s. The PAN got 35% in the last presidential election and 33% in the last Congressional one - coming first in the official results for both. This time, they got 27.97% - which put them in second place.br /br /The left-leaning PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) almost won the 2006 presidential election in its "Coalition for the Good of All" bloc. Its popular candidate, Lopez Obrador, was only about 0.5% behind the winner (the PAN's Felipe Calderon) in the official count. A lot of people suspect it was fixed and that Obrador was the real winner - and that Calderon and the outgoing president Fox arranged things so the right-wing PAN would win. However, although the PRD-led bloc got 35% of the presidential vote and 28% of the Congressional vote in 2006 - coming second in both - the party seems to have lost a lot of support since 2006. This time around, it only got 12.23%. This is a drop of 16% from their Congressional election score in 2006.br /br /The Green Party in Mexico is allied with the PRI. It got 6.71% in this election, which seems to me a very high score for a green party in a poor country. The alliance may have proved useful in winning some of the 300 constituency seats which the PRI might have found difficult to win on its own.br /br /As Fruit and Votes points out, the Mexican electoral legislation prevents a party from having more than 8% more than its share of the vote as its share of parliamentary seats in the Chamber of Deputies. As such, with about 37% of the vote - the PRI is likely to get about 45% of the 500 seats in the Chamber. Together with the Greens, they will probably be just short of an overall majority.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/38622711-4316400854012131071?l=vinospoliticalblog.blogspot.com'//div

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