a more than twenty percent lead for a leftist candidate on the list manuel lopez obrador the former mayor of mexico city has vowed to end the violence and tackle and demick corruption his nearest rival is this man ricardo a niam who leads a left right coalition of parties. and he's only a correspondent ophelia harms our rooty is in mexico city and she joins us now for the latest so ophelia there have been these reports of some people being too scared to go out and vote because of all the violence just what sort of turnout is expected. well yes there is fear in some states that are very. filled with criminals which is colima get out on behind where people think that maybe criminal organizations might be disrupting the electoral process but this is actually expected to be a historic turnout with about sixty five percent of the electorate going to the