Calderón To Lose Congressional Support Base

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With a recent poll suggesting the governing Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) has failed to make up substantial ground on the opposition Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), it now looks almost certain that President Felipe Calderón's congressional support base will be severely eroded after July's mid-terms elections. The recent poll, carried out by Berumen y Asociados / El Universal showed that while support for the PAN had dropped less than for the PRI between May and June, by 1.0 percentage point (pp) compared to the PRI's 1.4pp fall, there is still a wide gap between support for the two parties - 35.8% for the PAN compared to 43.3% for the PRI.