Opinion polls showed that President Enrique Peña Nieto popularity had been dropping since 2011 .
A December 2017 article of The New York Times , reported Enrique Peña Nieto spending about 2000 million dollars on publicity , during his first 5 years as president , the largest publicity budget ever spent by a Mexican President.  In August 2016 , Peña Nieto 's approval ratings dropped to 23 percent ( 74 percent said they disapproved of his performance ) , which newspaper Reforma revealed to be the lowest approval rating for a president since they began polling in 1995 .
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