Elections in Mexico | End of campaign for favorite Sheinbaum and her rival Galvez

(Mexico) The electoral campaign ends this Wednesday in Mexico, four days before the vote on Sunday, with a last public meeting of the favorite Claudia Sheinbaum at her home in Mexico, and of her rival Xochitl Galvez in Monterrey (north-east).

The almost three months of campaigning since the 1^er March were marked by the assassination of 22 candidates in local elections, beyond the verbal jousting between the candidate of the left in power Claudia Sheinbaum and her center-right rival Xochitl Galvez.

On Tuesday, the official death toll rose with a candidate killed in the state of Morelos, south of Mexico, and another injured by bullets in Jalisco (northeast).

Mexico is organizing this Sunday the biggest elections in its history with, in addition to the presidential election, the renewal of the Parliament and the Senate, the election of nine governors out of the 32 states, and a myriad of local elections.

In total, 99 million voters are registered and 20,000 positions are to be filled during this one-round vote.

The government announced the deployment of 27,000 soldiers and members of the National Guard to ensure the security of polling stations on Sunday.

“Narco-candidate”, “candidate of lies”: despite the violence of Xochitl Galvez’s verbal attacks against Claudia Sheinbaum, the opponent was not able to catch up.

Ex-mayor of Mexico City, loyal to outgoing president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, M^me Sheinbaum would win Sunday with 54% of the vote, compared to Galvez’s 34%.

The Citizen Movement candidate, Jorge Alvarez Maynez, 38, has progressed, but remains far behind (12%).

His campaign was mourned by the collapse of a giant screen under the effect of a gust which killed nine people last Wednesday during a public meeting in his presence in Monterrey (north).

“We will win on June 2 and we will continue the transformation,” Sheinbaum is expected to repeat around 5 p.m. local time in front of tens of thousands of people on Zocalo, one of the largest squares in the world.

The candidate wants to continue the “Fourth Transformation” of Mexico initiated by the very popular outgoing president Lopez Obrador, who ends his term with an approval rate of nearly 66%.

For his part, M^me Galvez, supported by three parties, chose Monterrey, the industrial powerhouse close to the United States, to end her campaign.

At the end of her public meeting, the 61-year-old candidate plans to arrive just before midnight in her native town of Tepatepec, 100 km north of Mexico City, for a citizens’ meeting.

“I am convinced that in this election, there is a very important hidden vote,” wants to believe Xochitl Galvez to avoid falling behind in the polls.