(2 Jun 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mexico City, Mexico – 2 June 2024
++NIGHT SHOTS++
1. Traffic passing by
2. Various of people waiting outside polling station
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Aida Fabiola Valencia, voter:
"Yesterday I told my colleagues to go vote. I don’t know who they are going to vote for but it is the first time they are going to be able to elect a woman (referring to presidential candidate Claudia Sheinbaum), who I think is going to play an important role. (Women) are 60% (of the population), it is historic."
++DAWN SHOTS++
4. Various street scenes
5. Various of people waiting outside polling station
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Mónica Martínez, waiting voter:
"The fact that people vote for a candidate who is a woman implies a lot of change at all social and work levels, that means that it is already beginning to be, well it is, but the fact that it is for a presidential candidacy is much more significant."
7. Various of people waiting outside polling station
STORYLINE:
Voters waited outside polling stations before dawn in Mexico City on Sunday as the country prepares to select its next president, who is likely to be the first woman to hold the post.
The historic elections are weighing gender, democracy and populism, as they chart the country’s path forward shadowed by cartel violence.
With two women leading the contest, Mexico will likely elect its first female president — a major step in a country long marked by its macho culture.
The election is also the biggest in the country’s history.
More than 20,000 congressional and local positions are up for grabs, according to the National Electoral Institute.
Claudia Sheinbaum, the former mayor of Mexico City, has maintained a comfortable double-digit lead in opinion polls for months.
Xóchitl Gálvez, an opposition senator and tech entrepreneur, represents a coalition of parties that have had little historically to unite them other than their recent opposition to outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Mexico goes into Sunday’s election deeply divided: Friends and relatives no longer talk politics for fear of worsening unbridgeable divides, while drug cartels have split the country into a patchwork quilt of warring fiefdoms.
The atmosphere is literally heating up with a wave of unusual heat, drought, pollution and political violence.
AP video shot by Amaranta Marentes
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