“Turnout at Mexico’s first-ever judicial elections on Sunday was only around 13% of eligible voters, but President Claudia Sheinbaum nevertheless described the democratic exercise as a great success.”
MND Staff
Around 13 million Mexican citizens voted on Sunday, but 20% of all votes were invalid, either due to voters’ mistakes or because they chose to annul their ballots on purpose.
“Everything is perfectible,” Sheinbaum said of Sunday’s first-ever judicial elections, but declared she was “in a good mood” after millions of Mexicans took to the polls to vote.
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