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Thomas Graham in Mexico City

Mexican president hails ‘complete success’ after just 13% vote in judicial elections

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Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum at the national palace in Mexico City on Monday. Photograph: Henry Romero/Reuters

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum has defended the country’s unprecedented judicial elections after just 13% of Mexicans turned out to vote, a record low in a federal election.

Roughly 2,600 posts, from local magistrates to supreme court justices, were up for grabs on Sunday, as an entire judicial system was put to the vote for the first time in the world.

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