The official candidate for the Presidency of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaumvoted this Sunday within the Tlalpan mayor’s workplace, an inside district within the south of the Mexican capital, the place he stated that residents “shouldn’t be afraid” to take part within the election regardless of the violence.
“They should not be afraid, they need to exit and vote”the candidate of the ruling Nationwide Regeneration Motion (Morena) informed EFE after showing at 9:00 a.m. (3:00 p.m. GMT) at a voting middle within the city of San Andrés Totoltepec in Tlalpan, the place she was a delegate from 2015 to 2018.
Sheinbaum arrived accompanied by her husband, businessman Jesús María Tarriba, in the identical city the place the previous head of Authorities of Mexico Metropolis (2018-2023) has been voting for years.
Welcomed with the cry of “president”, the usual bearer of Morena, the president’s occasion Andrés Manuel López Obradorstood in line behind about twenty residents and lots of misplaced their place to greet and be photographed with the official chief, which delayed the tempo of the vote.
“Remember the cities of Tlalpan, your city wants you,” a number of neighbors shouted at her.
After an hour, round 10:00 a.m. (4:00 p.m. GMT), Sheinbaum entered his urn and minutes later got here out smiling.
On her poll for the Presidency, throughout the official field that in Mexico permits voting for candidates with out registration, she wrote the identify of Ifigenia Martínez, thereby making a symbolic vote for a lady who has been a historic chief of the Mexican left.
“And the remaining already know,” he added in potential reference to “vote all Morena,” a phrase he repeated all through his marketing campaign.
Questioned about political violence, with greater than 30 candidates murdered, certainly one of them hours earlier than the beginning of the election within the state of Michoacán, Sheinbaum responded to EFE that Mexicans “shouldn’t be afraid.”
Sheinbaum was the second presidential candidate to vote, since Jorge Álvarez Máynez, of the opposition Citizen Motion (MC), did so earlier than in Mexico Metropolis, the place the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez, of the Fuerza y Corazón por México coalition, was subsequent in line.
Mexico is experiencing the most important election in its historical past, through which a girl may develop into president for the primary time, with greater than 98 million folks referred to as to resume greater than 20,000 positions, together with the presidency, the five hundred deputies, the 128 senators and 9 state governments.
The voting facilities open from 8:00 a.m. to six:00 p.m. (from 2:00 p.m. to 00:00 GMT), so the Nationwide Electoral Institute (INE) will publish from 8:00 p.m. (02:00 p.m.) 00 GMT) the Preliminary Electoral Outcomes Program (PREP). EFE
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