human remains were dumped at three polling stations

The man who dumped the human remains fled on foot and the victim’s body was found five blocks away of the electoral center, described the newspaper The day from Baja California.

In another act of violence in Mexico, they left a wooden box with a head, two hands and two feet on a table in another polling center, also in Terrazas del Valle.

Another head more appeared in a hielera in a polling center in the Mariano Matamoros district, on the outskirts of Puebla.

I jump on these incidents, the elections in Mexico, which represent a test for President Andrés Lopez Obrador in the middle of his six-year term, they were moving smoothly.

“From what we have seen, there have been no major incidents of violence, compared to what this campaign was, which was marked by violence.”, declared at Telam the head of the electoral observation mission of the Standing Conference of Political Parties of Latin America and the Caribbean (Copppal), Dolores Gandulfo.

But the elections were held in Mexico in a climate of violence, after the assassination of 91 political leaders since last September, including 36 candidates or pre-candidates.

Mexico’s Secretary of Public Security, Rosa Zéla Rodríguez, said after the vote that there were sources of violence identified on election day “in several municipalities, but fortunately the National Guard is already in these places”.

Gandulfo said that “in general they were able to open almost all the polling centers in normal times” and added that it was estimated that citizen participation “could reach 40% or 50%”.

“Things are calm” and until noon there was “a great crowd”, declared at the beginning of the afternoon the head of the special prosecutor for electoral offenses (Fisel), José Ortiz Pinchetti, who added as 415 complaints for alleged electoral offenses.

“Long live democracy,” exclaimed the president after voting at the art museum of the Ministry of Finance, a few meters from the government palace in central Mexico City, without commenting further.

López Obrador retains more than 60% popularity and, according to the latest polls, will retain a comfortable parliamentary majority although he will lose a few seats, the prospect of a punitive vote weakening in the face of the decline of the coronavirus pandemic.