A general election is to be held in Mexco on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters will go the polls to elect, on the federal level:
Eight political parties will participate in the 2006 presidential election.
Competition between the three major parties is expected to be fierce, with the National Action Party (PAN) eager to hold on to the presidency for a second period, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) equally keen to regain the office it lost in the 2000 election for the first time in 71 years, and the Party of the Democratic Revolution believing itself with a good chance to win after disappointments in the two previous elections and suspected massive fraud in 1988.
