Mexico began voting to choose 12 governorst
Mexico began voting to choose 12 governors in tense calm environment.
Mexico, July 3 .- The polling stations opened its doors in Mexico today to elect governors and mayors in 14 states, in an atmosphere of tense calm in the violence of organized crime but so far no incidents have been reported.
The conservative National Action Party (PAN, currently at the helm of the federal government) and its historical rivals of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI, who, ffxiv gil, were 71 years in power) see to the polls as a test to see what will happen in 2012 presidential election.
In total, Mexicans will elect 12 governors and nearly 1,900 mayors and state representatives.
The Special Prosecutor for Attention to Electoral Crimes (Fepade) has provided 54 observers in the states where the voting takes place.
, cheap darkfall gold, The eyes are made today, especially in Tamaulipas (Gulf of Mexico), where drug trafficking is one of the most important power bases and demonstrated this week with the assassination of a candidate for Governor Rodolfo Torre Cantu, who was the favorite surveys.
Torre Cantu, who was running for the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), is replaced in elections today for his brother, sto credits, Egidio Egidio Torre Cantu vote at 09:30 pm (1430 GMT), accompanied by the widow of his brother and in the middle of a great safety device.
After casting their votes, Egidio Torre Cantu, in brief remarks to reporters invited to vote to citizenship.
"We come to vote, we voted, and we will deliver," he said, before leaving protected by their security.
In total, 9000 the state police to monitor the elections on Sunday, said Public Safety Secretary of State.
To this we must add the presence of federal forces.
"The conditions are given for the rating normally is carried across the state," he stated last night the chairman of the Electoral Institute of Tamaulipas (IETAM), Jorge Luis Navarro.
In Chihuahua, the state's most violent country, we also are watching the election attentively following the murder of a mayor last month and reported a threatening mail to voters and election officials that has circulated in recent days.
It also pays special attention to the elections in the state of Sinaloa, Mexican drug trafficking historical birthplace, where there have been several attacks with Molotov cocktails to the campaign headquarters of gubernatorial candidates in recent weeks.
The conservative candidate for governor in the central state of Hidalgo, Xochitl Galvez, denounced by police units to follow their team and the raid last night from his campaign headquarters for the prosecution state, according to the press.
According to the newspaper Excelsior published today, states in the electoral contest for 60% of over 5,000 organized crime murders recorded this year in the country, as well as to 37% of the population.
The twelve states are competing Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Durango, Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz and Zacatecas.
Currently, nine of them belong to the PRI, PAN and the other two to the PRD.