Tens of millions of Mexicans will go to the polls on June 2 to vote in the country’s largest election in history. The election will allow voters to decide more than 20,700 positions at the local and national levels.
This election has certainly been one of contrasts. It has become Mexico’s most violent election season on record, marred by the killing of dozens of candidates. But, at the same time, the country looks set to elect its first woman president.
The two women leading the contest are Claudia Sheinbaum from the incumbent left-leaning Morena party and Xóchitl Gálvez, who is the pick of Mexico’s opposition coalition. The only man in the presidential race, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, is trailing behind.
