This June 2 they have celebrated general elections in Mexico, in order to renew nearly 20,000 positions — among them those of the Presidency, those of 500 deputies, 128 senators and nine local governments. Almost 100 million people have been called to the polls to an electoral event of great importance, but which has also been held in a context of special violence: 22 candidates have been murdered – according to the numbers that the Government has recognized – and more than 200 polling stations have not been able to be installed due to security problems or social conflicts, affecting nearly 120,000 voters.

In total, some 170,000 voting centers, with nearly 1.5 million officials working for the development of the electoral event. The first polls were opened at 8:00 (local time) in Quitana Roo (Caribbean), although four hours after the start of the process, 12.4% of voting centers had not yet opened. The president of the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), Guadalupe Taddei, did not detail the reasons for this delay, stressing, however, that the number of polling stations already in operation was greater than those that were in the same situation in the elections of 2018 and 2021 the same now. which “guarantees” the “opportunity to participate in the day” for all citizens.

The Mexican INE is also the body in charge of publish the results of the elections in Mexicoafter which it seems that the A woman will assume the presidency for the first time: Claudia Sheinbaum. At 8:00 p.m. (local time, 12:00 a.m. on Monday according to Spanish peninsular time), the INE published the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP), which provides the following data, consulted at 9:30 a.m. the morning (Spanish peninsular time) of June 3:

  • Claudia Sheinbaum → 17,896,149 votes (57.7%)
  • Berta Xóchitl Gálvez → 9,092,478 (29.3%)
  • Jorge Álvarez Máynez → 3,274,235 (10.6%)

The Participation in the Mexican elections has been 60.2%although at this time only 51.8% of the minutes have been counted, so these results will vary over the hours, until the electoral count ends.

However, the INE already considers this result definitive. “With a confidence level of at least 95%Claudia Sheinbaum had between 58.3% and 60.7%” of the votes, explained the organization, which gave the second candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, between 26.6% and 28.6%. The third candidate, Jorge Máynez, would remain between 9.9% and 10.8%, while at the time of publication of these results, around 01:00 in the morning (Spanish peninsular time), the participation data It was anticipated that it would range between 58.9% and 61.2%.