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General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 2018. [1] Voters elected a new President of Mexico to serve a six-year term, [2] 128 members of the Senate for a period of six years and 500 members of the Chamber of Deputies for a period of three years.
Opinion polling was carried out prior to the 2018 Mexican general election. The 2018 Mexican election features nine registered political parties, including the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), National Action Party (PAN), Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), and the newly formed National Regeneration Movement (Morena).
July 1 – 2018 Mexican general election [14] [13] September 13 – Anniversary of the "Heroic Cadets", civic holiday; September 15 – Cry of Dolores, civic holiday; September 16 – Independence Day, statutory holiday [11] September 30 – José María Morelos's Birthday, civic holiday; October 12 – Day of the Race, civic holiday [13]
Hours after the election results were announced, the Mexican peso dropped over 4% in value to close at 17.71 to $1, and the Mexican stock exchange took a dive to close off 6%.
Mexican citizens over 18 years of age are eligible to vote in all Mexican elections. In order to carry the ballot, the citizen should first request a Voting Credential (Spanish: Credencial para Votar), a plastic card issues by the National Electoral Institute (Spanish: Instituto Nacional Electoral, INE) of the federal government.
This Mexican election came during the same year as the U.S. presidential election, a concurrence that only happens every 12 years. ... Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who won in a landslide in 2018 ...
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For the 2018 Mexican presidential election, López Obrador's political party, MORENA, formed the coalition Juntos Haremos Historia with left-wing Labor Party and socially conservative right-wing Social Encounter Party. [3] On 1 July 2018, López Obrador won a landslide victory against all other candidates, managing to secure 53% of the popular ...