Voting for the main candidates
Claudia Sheinbaum voted and after putting her paper in the ballot box she addressed the journalists and said she is “very happy, very enthusiastic,” and encouraged Mexicans that “we must go out and vote.””. She said she had a “quiet” night and that after voting she would return home to have breakfast.
For your partthe opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez spoke to the press and said that “it is going to be a hard, difficult, close day” in Mexico. “It is no picnic for those who believed this was a formality,” she said. “There is a great participation and I said it from the beginning that if people participate, Mexico wins.” Before the cries of his supporters and in the company of family members, Gálvez shouted: “God is with me.”
While, The candidate Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from the Citizen Movement party, went to his voting center in the central area of Mexico City and stood in line to wait his turn to vote.
Máynez, the third in contention
Thirdly, far away, lies Jorge Álvarez Máyneza young 38-year-old politician and national deputy who is running for the head of the Citizen Movement (MC), a space that cultivates an independent profile, liberal economically and social democratic politically. Throughout the campaign and in the three debates organized by the National Electoral Institute, Máynez sought to mediate between the two majority coalitions, disputing the vote of the disenchanted in both spaces and targeting above all a young electorate, made up of about 26 million. of voters. According to the polls, MC improved his voting intention in recent weeks, and could reach between 7 and 10 percentage points.
Claudia Sheinbaum, the favorite
At the presidential level there are only three candidates in dispute. The clear favorite is Claudia Sheinbaum, a scientist who is running for the ruling progressive coalition Let’s Keep Making History, made up of MORENA, the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM). Sheinbaum, being part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was awarded in 2007 with the Nobel Peace Prizeand served in the 2018-2024 six-year term as Head of Government of the capital city, one of the largest and most populated cities on the planet.
According to practically all the surveys, Sheinbaum leads the electoral preferences with at least 19 points of distance over his immediate rival, although other pollsters extend this margin to 30 points. If this trend is confirmed, the academic trained at the National Autonomous University of Mexico could become president with even more votes than those obtained by the president. Andrés Manuel López Obrador in the 2018 elections, ratifying the process of change that began a six-year period ago, when Mexico finally saw a succession of more than 80 years of conservative governments interrupted.
Xóchitl Gálvez dreams of hitting the big time
He also competes for the main position of the republic Xochitl Galvez, an economist and businesswoman who represents the opposition coalition Fuerza y Corazón por México, made up of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) (which governed the country for more than 70 years), the traditionally conservative National Action Party (PAN) and the of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), an old progressive formation located for years in the neoliberal field. Gálvez, despite being a member of the PAN bench, She has been a resisted candidate from the beginning for her own space. Although it was a polarized campaign from the beginning, Gálvez never managed to become a competitive alternative, in an election that seems to have been settled for months.
Two dead at voting centers
Two people died this Sunday in separate attacks on voting centers in the Mexican state of Puebla, a local government security source reported.
A woman died during a shootout that broke out after the assault on a voting booth in the municipality of Tlapanalá, where unknown persons stole electoral material, according to that source. Another person lost his life near an electoral post in the town of Coyomeapan, in an event also linked to the theft of electoral documents, she added.
