RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – One week before the mid-term elections in Mexico, considered the largest in the country’s history, tension increases with accusations between candidates, parties, and authorities, high electoral violence, and the persistent intervention of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
For Martha Singer, a political scientist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the current electoral process “has been marked since long before the candidates were nominated, by the confrontation between the opposition and the Federal Government” in elections where the Chamber of Deputies, 15 of the 32 governors, 30 local congresses and 1,900 city councils will be renewed.
Singer considered that the background of the current confrontation that has reached the elections “is triviality” and so far “a very desperate opposition with a lack of coherence”.
What we have as a result is this disqualifying tone that is increasing on one side and the other, tempers are very heated” in some sectors of society.
However, according to the electoral authority, “the installation of the 166,000 polling stations on June 6 “will not be put at risk”.