The elections in Mexico were marked by violence, with acts such as burning ballot boxes, theft of electoral packages, shootings, homicides and attempted kidnappings.
As of June 2, according to a preliminary report by the NGO Laboratorio Electoral, 37 candidates for public office have been murdered, a figure that is on the rise with the other 58 election-related homicides of candidates’ relatives, politicians who did not participate in the race and members of campaign teams.
Likewise, the Electoral Transparency Electoral Observation Mission expressed its concern about the “wave of violence.” Among the incidents that occurred during last Sunday’s election day were:
- At least two people died this Sunday in shootings at polling stations in Puebla
- Brawl at a polling station in El Salto, Jalisco
- 11 arrested for electoral crimes in Nuevo Leon
- False alarm for bomb in Cuajimalpa
- An attack was carried out against the candidate for municipal president in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, Fernando Morfín
- The candidate for municipal president for the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM), Reina De la Cruz Pérez, was threatened with being burned alive
This electoral process became the most violent in modern Mexican history, according to organizations.
#HCHInternational | Violence has overshadowed much of the electoral campaign in Mexico, which is holding its largest election ever on June 2.
➡On Friday, with just over 24 hours left until the start of the elections, the Puebla Prosecutor’s Office issued a… pic.twitter.com/ui3f0j1xgB
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