Weekly Report - 25 June 2009 (WR-09-25)

The opinion polls are pointing to a thumping defeat for the leftwing Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD) in the mid-term congressional elections on 5 July. Currently, the PRD is the second biggest party in the lower chamber of congress with 126 of the chamber's 500 seats. The party is badly split, most damagingly in its heartland of Mexico City.