A woman serves as an electoral jury in the Mexican general elections this Sunday, at a polling station in Cancún, Quintana Roo (Mexico).
Photo: EFE – Alonso Cupul
Mexico goes to the polls this Sunday to vote in the largest elections in its history: they will choose more than 20,000 positions in the 32 states, in addition to the Presidency of the country.
Who are the candidates for the Presidency of Mexico?
It will be a single electoral round in which the favorites are two engineers from different political sides: Claudia Sheinbaum, former mayor of Mexico City and candidate of the ruling party, and the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez, former senator who represents the coalition of the most traditional communities in Mexico : the National Action Party (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD).
Between them, according to the latest polls, they account for more than 80% of the voting intention, with Sheinbaum in the lead, with more than 50 of those points (Gálvez, with close to 30).
A third candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from Movimiento Ciudadano, has fluctuated between 5 and 13% of voting intentions in recent months.
The winner will succeed Andrés Manuel López Obrador by taking the reins of the country on October 1, for a six-year mandate, in the midst of the greatest wave of violence in recent years and with great economic challenges. and environmental.
What other positions are elected?
All of the 128 seats for the Senate (Upper House) are voted on, as well as 500 for federal deputies (Lower House).
In addition, governors will be elected in Chiapas, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Morelos, Puebla, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatán, and the head of Government of Mexico City (mayor).
There are also 20,708 public positions in the 32 states, which is why these are considered the largest elections in the history of Mexico.
Voting hours and delivery of results
The polls opened at 8 am (9 am Colombia time, with reference to the Mexico City time zone) and will be open until 6 pm in each territory.
The results of the first quick count are expected to be known around 7 or 8 pm local time (that is, between 8 and 9 pm Colombia time).
