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Mexico to announce the name of the presidential candidate of the ruling party in Mexico

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September 6 |

Mexico’s governing coalition Juntos Hacemos Historia (Together We Make History), led by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party, Morena, will announce this Wednesday the name of its presidential candidate for the 2024 general elections.

Through a polling process, with the participation of more than 12,000 people, the political movement will choose its candidate for chief executive among six candidates.

According to projections, former Foreign Minister Marcel Ebrard and former Mexico City Chief of Government, Claudia Sheinbaum, lead citizen preferences.

The former governor of Chiapas, Manuel Velasco; the former Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López, and the licensed legislators Gerardo Fernández Noroña and Ricardo Monreal also presented themselves as aspirants.

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The leader of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), Mario Delgado, informed on Tuesday that the opening of the ballot boxes with the ballots of the polls of the internal process to define the presidential candidacy of the ruling coalition began in the afternoon.

After offering details on how the ballots will be counted, Delgado explained that the results will be made known to the six candidates at 17:00 local time (23:00 GMT) on Wednesday, and will be made public at 20:00 hours (02:00 GMT on Thursday).

On June 2, 2024, Mexicans will go to the polls to elect President López Obrador’s successor for the 2024-2030 six-year term.

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