ms sheinbaum, who is a former mayor of mexico city, has the backing of the outgoing president, lopez 0brador. it s been the most violent election campaign in modern mexican history. over 20 local candidates have been killed across the country during the campaign and two people were killed in separate attacks at voting centres in the central state of puebla. 0ur correspondent in mexico city will grant told me why the levels of violence have been so high in the run up to this election. it s hard to say why it s been so much more violent this time around rather than in previous elections. but it certainly has been. this has been the most violent election, the most violent campaign, really, in living memory in mexico, with scores of candidates either killed, which is extremely frightening or threatened and sort of forced off the ballot. now, we ve been speaking to voters in mexico city during the course of the day, some who feel like claudia sheinbaum won t be the answer, particularl
BINTULU, Nov 4 The polling process for the Jepak state by-election, which began at 7.30 this morning, concluded when 11 out of 14 polling centres closed at 5.30pm. Earlier,.
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the authorities have deployed more than 100,000 police and soldiers to protect the vote. our south america correspondent, katy watson, is in quito. kt. kt, we introduce there that 100,000 soldiers and police had been deployed to try to keep the peace. what has today been like so far? yes, i was talking to a kerneljust now, who said they had been deployed to voting centres from wednesday. normally, it would just be over the weekend, but they have had to beef up weekend, but they have had to beef up security. when we entered one of the voting centres, they were checking our bags, checking everybody coming in. so, certainly, there is that increased presence of police and military personnel here in quito. and on the coast, in places like esmeralda us and inquire a killer, certainly, there is even more security there, because those are some of the areas that have been more hits because of violence and increased organised crime over the
i was walking to a coloneljust now who said they had been deployed to voting centres from wednesday, normally it would only be just over the weekend, but they have had to beef up security, when we entered one of the voting centres, they were checking our bag, checking everybody coming in, so certainly there is that increased presence of police, and military personnel here, in quito and on the coast, in places, certainly that is everyone, there is more security there, but those are the areas that have been particularly hard hit, because of violence and increased organised crime over the past few year, so thatis crime over the past few year, so that is something they are taking very seriously in this vote today. polls close in a few hours time, katie, and then the real hard work begins for whoever is successful as a result of this election, considering the rise of violence, considering the rise of violence, considering the rise of violence, considering the political assassinations, ther