Morenista devastates in simulation in universities; Gálvez, third place

In the 32 entities of the country, students from more than 200 faculties, schools and academic units carried out the university electoral simulation yesterday. At the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 11 boxes were installed in the faculties of Political and Social Sciences, Architecture, Social Work, Dentistry, Philosophy and Letters, Economics and Accounting, as well as in the CU Metro.

GALLERY: Sheinbaum obtains first place in university electoral simulation

At the close of the polls and after the count was carried out, it was indicated that first place was obtained by Claudia Shienbaum; second place, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, and third place went to Xóchitl Gálvez.

Pamela Guevara, a student on the organizing committee of the electoral simulation, reported yesterday morning that at 10:30 a.m., 300 polling stations were installed in the 32 states of the Republic. At 1:30 p.m., 70,500 students, workers and academics from public universities had voted.

Later, Guevara pointed out that at the 4:00 p.m. cutoff, 142,426 people had voted in nearly 420 schools in the country.

At night, after 9:30 p.m., Carlos Zazueta, coordinator of one of the polls at the UNAM Faculty of Political and Social Sciences and the Voz Popular collective, explained that in the 11 polls installed at UNAM, the 4T and Sheinbaum won first place.

Zazueta highlighted that in the Faculty of Sciences, Sheinbaum obtained 157 votes, Álvarez Máynez 51 and Gálvez 25. In Dentistry the results were: Sheinbaum 194, Álvarez Máynez 60 and Gálvez 50. In Philosophy: Sheinbaum 164, Álvarez Máynez 36 and Gálvez 16. The presidential candidate of the Let’s Keep Making History coalition swept all the faculties.

On the other hand, young people from Hidalgo stood in long lines yesterday at the polls installed in higher education institutions to take part in the electoral simulation; The organizers initially contemplated six participating schools in Hidalgo, but in the end another nine joined.

Óscar Gálvez, teacher at the state’s Metropolitan University Center, stated that the students were enthusiastically involved in the handcrafting of the electoral furniture; It is necessary to carry out these activities to encourage citizen participation and combat abstentionismhe stressed.

For her part, Beatriz Vargas, a political scientist who graduated from the Hidalguense Center for Higher Studies, a private school that joined the consultation, commented that it is a simulation that is done to guide students, mainly those who are going to vote for the first time, so that they know what they should do when going to the polls.

Meanwhile, in Durango only the Universidad Juárez del Estado (UJED) and the Technological Institute carried out the exercise, although with low attendance.

At the UJED Law Faculty, which was where most attendees could be observed, 500 ballots were awarded, but only 40 percent were used.

The electoral simulation was also carried out on the Social Sciences and Humanities campus of the Autonomous University of Yucatán, where four polling stations were installed and around a thousand ballots were available.

Meanwhile, in Oaxaca, the venue was the José Vasconcelos University (private), where it was reported that only about 30 law students participated.

Ricardo Montoya, Saúl Maldonado, Luis Boffil and Jorge A. Pérez, correspondents