Mexico’s Pena Nieto Keeps Lead as Second Place Undefined: Poll
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Mexican presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto maintained his two-digit lead as his two rivals fought for second place in the latest opinion poll before the July 1 vote.
Pena Nieto of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, known as PRI, had 37.9 percent of voter preferences, from 38.4 percent a week ago, according to the poll released today by Consulta Mitofsky. Support for Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the Party of the Democratic Revolution rose to 20.5 percent from 19.1 percent, while Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling National Action Party had 20.1 percent backing, down from 20.8 percent, according to the Mexico City-based polling company.