18:21 08/06/2015
Mexico City - Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's party won
congressional elections on Sunday, retaining its simple majority despite
protests and falling approval ratings, according to preliminary
results.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is expected
to win between 29.87 and 30.85% of the ballots, followed by the
conservative National Action Party with 21.47-22.7%, said National
Electoral Institute president Lorenzo Cordova.
The result would
leave the PRI with between 196 and 203 seats in the 500-member lower
chamber of Congress, fewer than the current 207 it won in the 2012
elections.
But
its Green Party ally is tipped to increase its representation after
securing around seven percent of the vote, resulting in 41 to 48 seats.
Another ally, the New Alliance, would get nine to 12 seats.
The biggest loser is the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), which fell from 18.4% in 2012 to around 11-12% on Sunday.
The
PRD has been hit by infighting. Two-time presidential candidate Andres
Manuel Lopez Obrador formed his own party, Morena, which won around nine
percent of the vote.
The party has also struggled since a PRD
mayor was arrested and accused of ordering police in the Guerrero state
town of Iguala to confront college students last year.
Prosecutors say the officers abducted 43 students and handed them over to a drug gang, which slaughtered them.
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