The Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obradorwent to vote this Sunday along with his spouse, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, within the elections that can outline the one who will succeed him within the Authorities as of October 1.
“Cheer up!”mentioned the president with out additional statements, after being one of many first to vote, round 8:30 native time (14:30 GMT) in a voting heart contained in the Artwork Museum of the Ministry of Finance and Public Credit score. (SHCP) within the historic heart of Mexico Metropolis.
«In true democracy it’s the individuals who rule. The whole lot else is accent. “Tonight we’ll know what the Mexicans freely determined,” López Obrador wrote hours afterward his X account.
“The vote is secret,” Gutiérrez Müller responded to questions from the press concerning the that means of the presidential couple’s vote.
López Obrador couldn’t search re-election, as decided by the Mexican Structure, however he’s betting on the victory of the official candidate, Claudia Sheinbaumabove the opponents Xochitl Galvezfrom the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition, and Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from Movimiento Ciudadano (MC).
Violence
Whereas the president was voting, candidates had been already lining as much as take part within the elections in Mexico Metropolis.
Mexico has the biggest election in its historical past with greater than 98 million individuals referred to as to resume greater than 20,000 positionstogether with the presidency, the five hundred deputies, the 128 senators and 9 state governments.
The voters’s highest precedence has been violenceas a result of though the Authorities has said that the month-to-month incidence of homicides has fallen by greater than 20% throughout López Obrador’s administration (2018-2024), The opposition denounces that his six-year time period will finish as probably the most violent with greater than 180,000 murders.
The elections have additionally been marked by violence, with 22 murdered candidates acknowledged by the Authorities, however impartial teams register extra, corresponding to 34 reported by the consulting agency Integraliawhich raises the determine to round 250 political homicides when together with advisors, officers, members of the family and collateral victims.
The Nationwide Electoral Institute (INE) will publish the Preliminary Electoral Outcomes Program (PREP) beginning at 8:00 p.m. Central Mexico time (02:00 GMT on Monday), whereas between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. (04:00 and 05:00 GMT on Monday) the president of the group, Guadalupe Taddei, will announce the short depend. EFE
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