The first judicial election of Mexico This Sunday concluded with the closure of the electoral tables without significant incidents and with the expectation of a low participation.
At 18.00 local time in central Mexico (00.00 GMT on Monday) closed the more than 83,800 tables that from 8.00 (14.00 GMT) received citizens in the process to choose judges, magistrates and ministers.
The day was characterized by the confusion of citizens to vote, since they received six tickets for the federal election of the Judiciary, in addition to state in 19 states that will also renew their local judges.
The National Electoral Institute (INE) will not give preliminary results, but in accordance with the president, Guadalupe Taddei, at 23.00 hours (05.00 GMT on Monday) the participation figures and the total count of votes will be estimated to be estimated at least 10 days.
Taddei explained that around 14.00 local time in Mexico City (20.00 GMT), 99.9 % of the electoral centers were installed and receiving voters.
According to Jorge Montaño Ventura, INE counselor, only 16 boxes were not installed, most in the state of Chiapas, one in Michoacán (due to threats of explosive detonation) and another in Sinaloa, due to the lack of officials and the impossibility of replacing them.
During the commemoration of Navy Day – this day – and from the Acapulco spa, in the southern state of Guerrero, the president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, stressed that this Sunday the country made “history” because all citizens “we chose the three powers” what makes this a country “increasingly free, fair and democratic.”
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The most recent surveys point, despite a low participation, between 10 % and 20 % of the electorate.
The election, which was born from the reform of the Judiciary promoted by former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024), has received criticism because it is an attempt of the ruling party to control the Judiciary.
According to INE data, about 99.9 million Mexicans over 18 were called to the polls this Sunday to renew the Supreme Court of Justice and different magistrates and judged at the federal and local level, with a total of 2,681 positions in dispute, of which 881 are of a federal nature.
In addition to the judicial election, in Durango, northern Mexico, there was a renovation of 39 presidencies, the same number of unions and 326 regidurías. While in the oriental state of Veracruz it was also voted for 212 presidencies, 212 unions and 630 regidurías.
