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Work, Covid-19 and apathy, brakes to go to the polls

Gerardo Reyes, waiter at a hotel located in the Center of the Mexico City, could not vote in yesterday’s elections.

The 27-year-old wanted to participate in the party of the democracy; however, his employer did not give him permission.

“I live in the [alcaldía] Gustavo A. Madero, then, had to go to my house or to a special booth, but my boss did not give me permission.

“He was going to lose more than an hour and he didn’t want to let me out. My schedule ends until 9:00 at night, “he explained in an interview with THE UNIVERSAL.

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Like him, millions of people did not go to the polls to participate in the largest elections in the history of Mexico; some, for work reasons; others, for fear of catching Covid-19, and even out of apathy.

Yesterday, more than 93 million citizens registered in the electoral roll, which is constantly updated by the National Electoral Institute (OTHER), were able to go to the more than 162 thousand polls that were installed to vote.

In the 2018 elections, one of the most voted, a participation of 62.65% of the 89.1 million Mexicans that appeared on the nominal list was registered. However, the day that gave the now president victory Andrés Manuel López Obrador it has not been the most crowded.

The record in participation is held by the 1994 presidential election, with a turnout of 77.2% and an abstention of 22.8%; In that election, with a nominal list of 45 million 729 thousand 57 citizens, 35 million 285 thousand 291 voted, being Ernesto Zedillo the candidate who won.

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From its book and magazine store, located in front of the Alameda, Jaime Gómez confessed that, outright, he did not go to vote because he simply is not interested: “I don’t really care, because whoever wins is the same. Here, the one who works eats, it doesn’t matter who wins or who loses, and the one who doesn’t work doesn’t eat, and if right now I close my shop to vote, then I’m not going to eat. I better stay in my business. “

It was up to him to choose the new president of the Cuauhtémoc mayor’s office, in which eight candidates competed, among them, Dolores Padierna, for Morena, and Sandra Cuevas, from PRI-PAN-PRD.

“I don’t even know them, really. [Ir a votar] nothing else would be going to waste my time because they are all the same, I’m not going ”.

Another case was that of Frida Sánchez, who preferred to abstain from voting in the municipality of Nezahualcóyotl, State of Mexico, for fear of catching the coronavirus.

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“I have not been out for a full year. I have feared this pandemic a lot, an aunt died and a cousin was very serious. I have taken too much care to go out now to a place where there are crowds, “he explained.

In these elections 30 local congresses, 15 governorships, more than 190 municipalities, 16 mayors and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies, among other positions.

The polling stations remained open until 6:00 p.m. yesterday and, until the closing of this edition, the abstention figure had not been released.

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