Mexico ruling party well behind upstart leftist in voter poll
JULY 23, 2017 / 12:34 PM / 5 HOURS AGO
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party is running in third place with less than a year to go before the next presidential election, well behind the new party of leftist hopeful Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, an opinion poll showed on Sunday.
Excluding undecided voters, support for President Enrique Pena Nieto's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) stood at 17 percent, 11 percentage points behind the top choice, Lopez Obrador's National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), with 28 percent, the poll by newspaper Reforma showed.
The second most popular option with 23 percent support was the center-right opposition National Action Party, or PAN, which held the presidency between 2000 and 2012.
Backing for the centrist PRI has gradually crumbled since Pena Nieto took office in December 2012 because of anger over corruption, resurgent gang violence and tepid economic growth.
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