FACTBOX: Mexico's Calderon suffers mid-term defeat

(Reuters) - Following are five facts about Mexican President Felipe Calderon, 46, whose conservative party was knocked into second place in Congress in mid-term elections at the weekend as he battles with an economic downturn and rampant drug violence.

* A dour but determined former lawyer, Calderon has been in power for the conservative National Action Party, or PAN, since late 2006 after narrowly winning an election over left-wing firebrand Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who set up protest camps in the capital for weeks to challenge the result.

* Calderon has launched an army-led war on drug gangs and made curbing cartel violence the centerpiece of his presidency. His crackdown, using thousands of troops, has put a string of traffickers behind bars but cartel turf wars still kill hundreds of people each month.

* The Mexican president was the first foreign leader to meet Barack Obama after he won the U.S. presidential election last year. They discussed border security, immigration, the NAFTA trade pact and Mexico's drug war at talks in Washington in January.

* Calderon has pleased investors by pushing tentative energy, tax, pension, justice and security reforms through Congress, despite the PAN's lack of a majority in the lower house. But the proposals were often watered down by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, which won Sunday's vote to become the biggest party in the lower house.

* A former energy minister, Calderon had hoped to overhaul the state-run energy sector to open the door to some foreign investment, possibly through strategic alliances with state oil monopoly Pemex, to reverse declining oil output. But few see such a reform possible in his second half-term.

(Compiled by Catherine Bremer in Mexico City)