MEXICO held elections on Sunday (2/6) native time to elect a brand new president amid problems with violence in the course of the marketing campaign course of. This vote will possible put a girl as president for the nation’s first time.
Two feminine presidential candidates, Claudia Sheinbaum from the left-wing Morena celebration and Xochitl Galvez, from the conservative PAN celebration which represents a coalition of opposition events. The third candidate is Jorge Alvarez Maynez, the youngest within the race.
This would be the largest election within the nation’s historical past. Greater than 98 million voters are registered to vote in Mexico, and 1.4 million Mexicans are eligible to vote overseas.
Along with electing a brand new president, Mexicans can even elect members of Congress, a number of state governors, mayors and plenty of native officers. In complete, greater than 20 thousand positions are being contested in Mexico’s 2024 elections.
Other than that, the election recorded darkish historical past, the bloodiest election in Mexican historical past. A lot of political candidates have been assassinated by legal organizations searching for to affect these searching for energy.
Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. native time and can shut at 6 p.m., based on Mexico’s Nationwide Electoral Institute (INE).
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Nevertheless, some polling stations in some areas of the nation delayed beginning voting. Lengthy queues had been seen in Mexico Metropolis, Yucatan, Tuxtla, Cuauhtemoc and voting facilities overseas.
In Madrid, Spain, Mexican expatriates instructed CNN they waited greater than eight hours to forged their votes. One Mexican voter mentioned he had been ready in line for 11 hours.
Outdoors the polls, voters instructed CNN that public security was certainly one of their high issues. A minute’s silence was held on polling day to recollect these killed in the course of the election interval. (CNN/P-5)
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