The centers for the presidential election closed this Sunday throughout the territory of Mexico with the end of voting in the Pacific states, so within a few hours it is expected to know the person who will succeed the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador
Polling stations closed at 18:00 local time (01:00 GMT) in Baja California, Baja California Sur, Nayarit, Sinaloa and Sonora, They are one behind the rest of the country.
Among the last cities to finish voting were Tijuana, the largest city on Mexico’s border with the United States and the most populated municipality in the country, with more than 1.9 million inhabitants.
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The National Electoral Institute (INE) will publish the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) starting at 8:00 p.m. central time (02:00 GMT), while between 10:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. local time (04:00 p.m. 00 and 05:00 GMT) will announce the quick count, that can define the person who will win the presidency of the country.
The media and political parties too can now disclose exit polls.
The main race will define who will succeed López Obrador, who expects the victory of the official candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, above the opponents Xóchitl Gálvez, of the Force and Heart coalition for Mexico, and Jorge Álvarez Máynez, of the Citizen Movement (MC).
Of the 170,182 approved voting centers, the INE reported the installation of 169,884, 99.98%, with the participation of nearly 1.5 million officials.
The autonomous body He acknowledged on Saturday that he would not open 222 polling stations due to insecurity or conflicts, the majority in the states of Chiapas (108) and Michoacán (84), but the rest did not detail the reasons for the closure.
Mexico has the biggest election in its history, with more than 98 million people calls to renew more than 20,000 positions, including the presidency, the 500 deputies, the 128 senators and nine state governments.
But they have also been the most violent, with 22 murdered candidates recognized by the Government, although independent groups record more, such as the consulting firm Integralia, which raises the figure to nearly 250 political homicides by including advisors, officials, family members and collateral victims.
At least two people died this Sunday in shootings at voting centers in Puebla, a state in the center of the country, while hours before the start of the elections, the candidate was shot dead Israel Delgado Vega, official who sought to be a trustee in the municipality of Cuitzeo, in Michoacán.
