The closing of the elections begins
The voting centers to elect president of Mexico and more than 20,000 federal and local positions they started to close in a district in the southeast of the country and towns bordering the United States.
As established by the electoral law, the state of Quintana Roo (southeast) and the border areas of Coahuila, Nuevo León (north) and Tamaulipas (northeast) are the first to conclude receiving votes.
In Mexico there are three time zones.so an hour later the polls in Mexico City will close and then the districts of the northern Pacific, after which The dissemination of exit polls for the presidential election will be permitted.
20:55
06/02/2024
43 minutes ago
Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez head to their respective bunkers
Xóchitl Gálvez and Claudia Sheinbaumthe main presidential candidates, sand they head to their bunkers where they will wait for the results of the day and everything that happened during the voting.
Sheinbaum will meet with his campaign team at the Hilton Hotel located on Paseo de la Reforma. For his part, Gálvez will meet with his campaign team at the Intercontinental hotel President located in the Polanco neighborhood.
20:19
06/02/2024
One hour ago
More than 180 thousand votes were cast from abroad
The National Electoral Institute Mexican (INE) reported that so far 180,676 votes have been cast by citizens residing abroad, of which 39,590 were by postal vote, and 139,331 by internet, thus exceeding the figure for 2018.
19:57
06/02/2024
2 hours ago
Historic election for the Mexican left
By Lautaro Rivara, from Mexico City
This Sunday June 2 98.9 million Mexicans are called to the polls in which they are considered the largest elections in the entire history of the country. In these elections, 20,708 positions will be at stake at the federal, state and local levels. Among them, the presidency of the republic, the head of government of Mexico City, the governorships of eight states and also the set of representations in Congress, which is renewed in its entirety, with 128 senatorial offices and 500 deputations.
19:33
06/02/2024
2 hours ago
The other side of the elections in Mexico: 38 candidates murdered
Mexico elects its new president this Sunday, within the framework of one of the most violent electoral processes in history, with a total of 38 murders and more than 300 cases of attacks on candidates and people related to the elections. The data was provided by the Mexican Electoral Laboratory, with a report that surveyed the cases from June 4, 2023 to May 31, 2024.
19:11
06/02/2024
2 hours ago
They assassinate a candidate for local office in the state of Michoacán
A candidate for municipal oversight was murdered in the Mexican state of Michoacán (west) hours before the start of the general elections this Sunday, the regional prosecutor’s office reported.
Is about Israel Delgado, 35 years old, aspiring trustee (comptroller) of the town of Cuitzeo, who was attacked by gunfire on Saturday night near his home, the Michoacán prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Since last September, when the electoral process began with internal party contests, some 26 aspirants have been killed.
18:46
06/02/2024
3 hours ago
Two dead due to armed incidents in Puebla
Two people died this Sunday in armed incidents in voting centers of the Mexican state of Puebla (center). First, a woman died in a shooting that was unleashed after the assault on a voting booth in the municipality of Tlapanalá, where unknown persons stole electoral material.
The shooting began when the police went to the scene after being alerted and began pursuing the criminals who had fled in a vehicle, the report added. Eight alleged assailants were arrested by authoritieswho found the woman’s body in the area.
Another person He lost his life near an electoral post in the town of Coyomeapan, in an incident also linked to the theft of electoral documents. The victim is apparently a member of the Green Party. The authorities are investigating reports that the incident occurred due to a confrontation between rival political movements.
18:23
06/02/2024
3 hours ago
Elections suspended in two municipalities in Mexico due to violence
A series of attacks and the presence of alleged criminals forced the authorities to suspend the general elections this Sunday in two municipalities in the Mexican state of Chiapas (south), bordering Guatemala.
The regional Elections Institute (IEPC) reported that there are no conditions for the installation of voting stations in the communities that make up Pantelhó and Chicomuselo, inhabited by about 63,000 people.
It was “determined not to hold elections” given “the situation of violence and ungovernability,” the IEPC said in a statement.
17:59
06/02/2024
4 hours ago
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.
17:49
06/02/2024
4 hours ago
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.
17:48
06/02/2024
4 hours ago
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.
17:48
06/02/2024
4 hours ago
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.
17:43
06/02/2024
4 hours ago
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.
