Violence mars Mexicans’ biggest elections ever

ON MAY 29TH, the day that campaigning for the election on June 2nd closed, a mayoral candidate was shot dead in Guerrero, a state south-west of Mexico City. Nearly 40 candidates have been assassinated in these elections; include killings of politicians’ family members and campaign teams and the number rises.

Violence has marred these historic elections. An unprecedented 100m people, including more first-time voters than ever before, are eligible to cast their ballot tomorrow. They will elect the first female head of state—in all likelihood Claudia Sheinbaum of the ruling Morena party, who has long led the polls by around 20 points. Mexico’s biggest-ever elections will also elect 628 members of congress, nine governors and around 19,000 local posts.