This Sunday 99.5 million Mexicans will go to the polls to elect the successor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador. There are three candidates in the race for the presidency: Xóchitl Gálvez, Claudia Sheinbaum and Jorge Álvarez Máynez.
This has been one of the most violent campaigns in recent years, in which around 30 candidates were murdered.
It is a mega-election in which 20,000 public positions will also be voted on, including the entire Congress. In addition to the presidency of the country, the positions of the new Congress, made up of almost 630 seats between the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, will also be at stake.
Sheinbaum, who was mayor of Mexico City, promised to continue with the political line of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
However, it also contains a hard line to combat violence in Mexico, which differs from AMLO’s policy of aiming to reduce inequality and poverty, in order to reduce marginality rates.
For his part, Gálvez hopes to achieve the hidden vote of millions of Mexicans. The bet is also to achieve polarization and obtain the votes of the third favorite, already located in a testimonial character, as well as those of the third in the running, a testimonial Álvarez Máynez.
Gálvez recounts the media and institutional support given to him by the acronym that makes up the ”Force and Heart for Mexico” coalition –PRI, the National Action Party (PAN) and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD)–. But he does not seem to have preferences, not even in his native Tapetec, in the center of the state of Hidalgo.
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In three months of the campaign, violence prevailed especially in the murder of candidates from small towns: around 30 have been murdered.
The latest crime is Coyuca, in Guerrero, while an unfortunate event also occurred during an event in Máynez, in León, where nine people died due to the collapse of a stage.
The Organization of American States (OAS) condemned recent episodes of violence and murders during the campaign, while expressing its confidence that “citizen participation and mobilization will overcome fear.”
