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Between this Sunday (1st) and Monday (2), the Mexicans face two decisive days in politics and football. This is because, today, it is the day of elections in Mexico, when the people will choose the new president of the nation. Tomorrow, the Mexican national team will play against Brazil in the last 16 of the World Cup
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About 89 million voters will go to the polls this Sunday to choose the new Mexican president, who in the next six years will govern the second-largest Latin American economy after the Brazilian. Elections in Mexico
however, have not been seen by a very sporty spirit. After all, it's the most violent the country has ever known.
During the campaign, 130 politicians were killed – many of them candidates for the 18,000 conflicting jobs. The murders are attributed to drug gangs and cartels, who fight for territory and power, buying alliances and killing those who oppose them.
The National Commission on Human Rights (CNDH) asked the 32 state governments, including that of the capital, Mexico City, to take special measures to protect journalists who will cover the largest Elections in Mexico
from the recent history
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In addition to the president, the Mexicans will renew the National Congress and elect governors, mayors, state deputies and councilors.
Elections in Mexico: Tilt to the Left
All polls indicate that in a country traditionally governed by two parties: the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), the current President Enrique Peña Nieto, and the Party of National Action (PAN), is today a day of recovery.
After all, of the four presidential candidates, the favorite is the leftist Andres Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, of the National Movement for Regeneration (Morena).
This is the third time that AMLO is challenging the presidency. . He began his political career in the PRI, which elected all Mexican presidents since 1929, with the exception of two: Vicente Fox (2000-2006) and Felipe Calderón (2006-2012), both of PAN. In the 1980s, López Obrador rose to opposition.
AMLO
lost for less than one percent of the 2006 elections, for Calderón, and did not accept defeat. He accused the government of the time of the fraud and called a crowd of sympathizers in Zocalo Square, in the capital, where he held a swearing-in ceremony as the legitimate president of Mexico.
This time, the chances of seeing AMLO in the elections in Mexico
are bigger: voters are tired of the violence, which resulted in 30,000 homicides in 2017, and the current government's corruption scandals.
* According to information from Agência Brasil.
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