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The Mexican presidential election, which takes place this Sunday, is the most violent poll ever held in Mexico, in a country that also recorded a record 25,339 homicides last year.
As Mexico votes for its next president on Sunday, July 1, an activist from the Workers' Party (PT, opposition) was shot dead in the state of Michoacan (west) shortly before the opening of the polls said the local judicial authorities. Flora Resendiz Gonzalez succumbed to her injuries after "being shot at 6:30 local time" in the town of Contepec, according to a statement from the judicial authorities.
145 politicians killed since the beginning of the campaign
The polls on this Sunday, July 1, 2018 will decide the new president of Mexico, but also the new Congress, and local elected officials (mayors, governors). At least 145 politicians have been killed since the start of the electoral campaign in Mexico, according to research firm Etellekt. 48 candidates for the vote of July 1 were murdered, says Etellekt.
On June 8, Fernando Puron, candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was killed coldly. This candidate for a deputy seat took a "selfie" with a supporter when a man leaning against a wall, approached him from behind and shot him in the head.
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"At least 71% of the attacks targeted elected authorities or candidates who aspired to local mandates, particularly positions in the municipalities, "said Ruben Salazar, director of Etellekt on Radio Formula. "During the 2012 elections, during the entire electoral process, there were only nine politicians murdered and one candidate according to our figures," he said pointing "very serious problems of local governance."
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