Polls indicate that the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party has won 40 percent of the vote in the Mexican parliamentary election. President Felipe Calderon’s Party of National Action gained just 29 percent of the vote.
In addition to the parliamentary elections, Mexicans voted for six governors and more than 500 mayors. The main themes of the election were the bloody war between the government and drug gangs, the economic recession and the H1N1 flu virus.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party held uninterrupted power in Mexico from 1929 until 2000.
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