Approval ratings for Mexico's president, Enrique Pena Nieto, are in free fall. A recent poll by leading daily newspaper, El Universal, has found that almost two out of three Mexicans disapprove of his performance in office. 

It's been a difficult year for Mexico's photogenic President Enrique Pena Nieto. His approval rating have fallen to a record low for any Mexican president.

"He has the lowest approval rating, not only at this moment, but the lowest level in history," said Roy Campos, director, Mitofsky Polls.

Roy Campos is one of Mexico's best-known pollsters. 

"What angers citizens most are the corruption scandals. Of all the president's reforms, it's not the one on energy or education, but the anti-corruption reforms which are most important for the public," he said.

In 2014, investigative journalists reported a construction firm, which had received billions in government contracts, gave the president and his wife a six million dollar, custom-made mansion.  

That same year, Pena Nieto's administration was doing damage control following the disappearance of 43 students.  

Then just last month, clashes in Oaxaca state between federal police and teachers, protesting Pena Nieto's education reforms, left at least nine people dead.

Political observer Laura Carlsen says the president's handling of the protest has added more tarnish to his crumbling ratings.

"They say police weren't even armed when there are videos all over the social networks of armed policemen firing at the protesters. Nobody is seeing a real leadership there and they are seeing piles of problems coming down on the country," she said. 

Chief among the issues, low world oil prices which have devalued the Mexican peso against the U.S. dollar. That's slowing down the economy even further. 

It all comes in the 4th year of Pena Nieto's six-year term. Experts we talked to say the Mexican President's final two years in office are going to be even more difficult, as all eyes turn toward Mexico's 2018 presidential election.