By Rocío Gallegos / La Verdad Juárez
CIUDAD JUÁREZ – On Sunday, June 2, Juárez voters will determine who will lead the municipality for the next three years. Six candidates – including one woman – are competing for the mayoral seat.
Juárez voters will also cast ballots for the presidency of Mexico, local councils and federal councils, as well as senators as this year’s state and federal elections run concurrently. Mexico is projected to elect its first woman president, who will succeed Andrés Manuel López Obrador and serve six years.
Incumbent Juárez mayor Cruz Pérez Cuéllar is seeking re-election under the coalition, “Let’s continue making history in Chihuahua,” comprising the Morena and Labor parties.
The other five candidates represent change in the mayor’s office, including Rogelio Loya Luna of the coalition “Together for the Good of Chihuahua,” composed of the National Action (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary (PRI) and Democratic Revolution (PRD) parties. Luna is a member of the PAN party.
Former PRI deputy Luis Fernando Rodríguez Giner is the candidate for the Green party (PVEM), and Juárez trustee María Esther Mejía Cruz is representing the Citizens Movement.
Two other candidates – Jesus Enrique Romanillo Leyva and Jaime “Maquina de Fuego” Flores Aguirre – represent state parties that are participating in an electoral process for the first time: México Republicano de Chihuahua (MRCH) and Pueblo, respectively.
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According to the National Electoral Institute, or INE, nearly 1.3 million people are registered to vote in Juárez – about 42% of the more than 3 million registered voters in the state of Chihuahua.
Juárez’s 2,344 polling stations, as well as 12 sites for those who want to vote from outside their precinct, will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Municipal police announced that they will implement a special surveillance operation comprising 3,000 officers to protect the voting process. Additionally, two mobile command centers will patrol strategic points within the city to protect the transfer of ballot boxes to election authorities.
Once polling stations close, vote counting begins under the Preliminary Electoral Results Program, which will release preliminary results and trends starting Sunday. The final official results will be released at midnight Tuesday.
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