Some opponents accuse Mr Calderón of pulling a stunt ahead of a mid-term election on July 5th.

一些反对者指责卡尔德龙在7月5日的中期选举前耍花招。

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IT IS only a mid-term election, for half of the lower house of Congress and a third of the senate.

这仅仅是一次议会中期选举，争夺的仅是国会下议院半数席位以及参议院三分之一的席位。

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Observers on both sides of the aisle are looking at this race as a possible harbinger of next year’s mid-term election.

过道两旁的观察者们正在紧盯此场比赛，因为该比赛可能预示着明年中期选举的动向。

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He promises to distribute 45m voter guides this year, a record for a mid-term election.

ECONOMIST: Randy Tate��s factory

In that vote, a sitting president managed to increase his party's share of congressional seats in a mid-term election for the first time since 1934.

ECONOMIST: Not least his own party

The last time unemployment was anything like its current level of 9.6% at a mid-term election, in 1982, the president's party lost 26 seats in the House, even though it was already in the minority.

ECONOMIST: The only question is just how bad it will be for the Democrats