墨西哥星期一举行了议会下院选举，涅托总统及其盟友在中期选举后，继续在议会掌握得以维持运作的微弱多数。
星期日举行选举之前发生了暴力事件，据称几名候选人死于贩毒集团之手。
选民们在中期选举中通常投票并不踊跃，但由于持激进立场的教师工会和活动人士组成一个松散的联盟，誓言抵制选举，所以人们对这次中期选举表现出不同寻常的关注。
教师们要求大幅加薪、停止进行教师考试，并要求保证一所激进的师范学院的42名失踪学生的安全。
这些学生于去年9月失踪，检察官说，一个贩毒团伙已把他们杀害，并焚化了尸体。经DNA检测，只辨认出一名学生的尸体。
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and his allies retained a slim working majority Monday in the lower house of Congress following mid-term elections.
The run-up to Sunday's poll was marked by violence, with drug cartels blamed for the deaths of several candidates.
Mid-term elections usually draw a light turnout, but attention was unusually high this time as a loose coalition of radical teachers' unions and activists vowed to block the vote.
The teachers' demands included huge wage increases, an end to teacher testing and the safe return of 42 missing students from a radical teachers' college.
Those students disappeared in September, and prosecutors say they were killed and incinerated by a drug gang. Only one student's remains were identified by DNA testing.
