Mexico Ruling Party Runs Strong in Poll

MEXICO CITY — An opinion poll says the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party will win three times as many votes as its opposition in the Mexico City area during July 7 congressional elections.

Israel Galan, who helped conduct the poll over a 10-day period for the Mexican Sociolgists Union, said the PRI would take 46% of the vote in the metropolitan area of 18 million people.

Twenty-nine percent of the more than 2,200 people polled said they would not vote in the elections for congressmen and seven state governorships, and 5% said they were still undecided, Galan said.

Mexico’s strongest opposition party, the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, will take only 16% of the vote, pollsters said, with the Communist Unified Socialist Party expected to take 10%.