Voters cast their ballots during general elections in Mexico City, Sunday, June 2, 2024.
Voting was suspended at one polling place after a person was killed in a shooting in Comeyoapan, a town in the state of Puebla, the state electoral authority reported in the afternoon. The state attorney general confirmed another death at a polling centre in Tlapanalapan, also in Puebla.
Mexico's largest-ever elections have also been the most violent in modern history, with the murders of 38 candidates, including one who was fatally shot on Saturday night. The deadly violence has stoked concerns about the threat of warring drug cartels to democracy. Ruling party presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum shows her ID as she leaves a polling station where she voted during general elections in Mexico City on Sunday.
Lopez Obrador, Sheinbaum's mentor, greeted supporters and posed for photos as he walked from the presidential palace to vote with his wife. "Before we couldn't even vote, and when you could, it was to vote for the person your husband told you to vote for. Thank God that has changed and I get to live it," Montiel added.Almost 100 million Mexicans are eligible to vote in Sunday's election. Other positions up for grabs include Mexico City's mayor, eight governorships and both chambers of Congress. About 20,000 elected positions are on ballots, the most in Mexico's history.
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