Mexicans vote in violent elections and with Lopez Obrador as favorite | World

Electoral sections began to close at 18:00 (Brasília time). The result should be known Monday.

"It's a historic day: the Mexican people will freely decide who will lead the government in the next six years," López Obrador said before voting.

"We believe that people will give their support … We will achieve this transformation without violence, peacefully, it will be an orderly change and at the same time profound because we will expel the corruption of the country", was -he adds. , next to the woman and children in an electoral college in the southern zone of Mexico.

In his third consecutive attempt to accede to the presidency, AMLO, as the Mexicans call it, stands as the antisystem candidate and research favorite, with more than 20 points. ahead of the traditional rivals: Ricardo Anaya, supported by a coalition of right and left (PAN, PRD and Mouvement Citoyen) and José Antonio Meade, of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) in power.

In addition to the presidential election, nearly 89 million Mexicans are registered to select governors, mayors and local and federal deputies from over 18,000 conflicting positions.

In Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum of the National Regeneration Movement (left), part of López Obrador's alliance, became the first woman elected to head the city's prefecture.

According to polls, Sheinbaum got between 45.5% and 55.5% of the vote, breaking with 21 years of domination of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD) in the city.

If the forecasts are confirmed, the 2018 elections will represent a change in the Mexican political map.

"The established party system has been shaken by the advance of Morena," said Duncan Wood, director of the Instituto México at the Wilson Center.

Presidential Campaign in Mexico