The most important election in Mexican history gave victory to a Jewish environmental scientist and former mayor of Mexico City. She is the first woman to become president of the country.
The ruling party’s candidate Claudia Sheinbaum has 58% of the votes in the presidential elections in Mexico, according to the latest preliminary data released by the Mexican electoral commission, at 8:00 a.m., with 48.7% of the votes counted.
The opposition candidate Xóchitl Gálvez continues with 29% of the votes, and in third place appears the Citizen Movement candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, also from the opposition, with 11% of the votes.
Sheinbaum, an environmental scientist and Jew, former mayor of Mexico City, is from the center-left National Regeneration Movement party (MORENA), which is part of the government coalition Let’s Keep Making History. And she was one of the favorites, along with Gálvez, from the conservative National Action Party (PAN), which is part of the opposition coalition Força e Coração por México, they were the favorites.
The election of a president is a big step in a country with alarming levels of gender violenceincluding high rates of homicides and other types of violent crimes committed against women.
More than 98 million voters were called to the polls for the most important elections in the history of Mexico, with more than 20 thousand positions to be contested in a single round, specifically for the Chamber of Deputies (500) and the Senate (128), in addition to eight governors (plus the government of the capital, Mexico City) and other regional and positions local.
The campaign was marked by a wave of violence.and the Government recognizes the murder of 22 candidates, although independent groups point to some 250 political homicides, including advisors, employees, family members and collateral victims.
At least 222 polling stations were closed in Sunday’s elections in Mexico, due to security problems or social conflicts, affecting around 120,000 voters, the INE reported.
The majority of these voting centers (108) are located in Chiapas, a southern border state, where disputes between organized crime and high violence led to the suspension of voting in the municipalities of Chicomuselo and Pantelhó.
Also in Michoacán, 84 polling stations would not open due to insecurity, said this Saturday, the executive director of the INE, Miguel Ángel Patiño.
Source: Observadora
