Background

Just three years removed from the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) stunning return to power, Mexicans will have a chance to provide some feedback at the ballot box this Sunday.

There will be 500 federal deputies (members of the lower house of Congress), 17 state legislatures, 300 mayors, and 9 governorships up for grabs. PRI is currently leading the National Action Party (PAN) by 7% according to recent polls, which is more reflective of popular apathy towards the opposition parties rather than a robust support base for the PRI’s President Enrique Peña Nieto.