•VACCINE: Forty-two percent of Mexicans believe that the López Obrador administration will improperly use the coronavirus vaccination effort for campaign purposes as the country enters a crucial midterm election year, a new poll by Mexico City’s Reforma newspaper reveals.
•MACHINERY: Yesterday, president Andrés Manuel López Obrador confirmed that the vaccination effort will be coordinated by a group of government employees in charge of social welfare programs and who are closely associated to Mexico’s governing party (MORENA).
•ELECTIONS: In June, Mexicans will go to the polls to renew the country’s Lower House of Congress where president López Obrador currently holds a majority. According to Reforma’s poll, 48 percent believe that the administration’s vaccination effort has only public health goals.
•TRUST: When asked about what vaccine they most trust, Mexicans give higher grades to vaccines produced in Europe (60 percent) than to those manufactured in China (22 percent). Reforma’s poll was conducted via phone among 400 adults between January 8 and August 12.
