Mexican president proposes second-round voting
Mexico has three main parties, and the electorate is often closely divided into three parts.
MEXICO: President Felipe Calderon has proposed second-round voting in future Mexican presidential elections if no candidate gets more than 50 percent of votes in the first round.
Calderon, former President Vicente Fox and President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto were all elected with less than 50 percent of votes.
Mexico has three main parties, and the electorate is often closely divided into three parts.
Calderon proposed the measure to congress on Tuesday, just three days before he leaves office.
He made the same proposal in 2009, but it went nowhere, in part because it requires changing the constitution.
Calderon has been reviving old proposals in the days before he leaves office. Last week, he proposed changing the country's name from 'United Mexican States" to simply Mexico.
