July 1, 2012
Women have a look at a leaflet that shows candidates in a polling station in the municipal building of the San Bartolome town, in Oaxaca on Election Day. Polls opened Sunday. Almost 80 million Mexican are expected to vote in the presidential election, in which voters exhausted by violence seem prepared to bring the PRI, the party that ran the country for seven decades, back to office. Mexican presidents are elected by simple majority for six-year terms and are banned from running for re-election.
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July 1, 2012
Workers prepare a polling station in downtown Mexico City, on Election Day.
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July 1, 2012
A young woman cries as she and other members of the movement "Yosoy132" (I am 132) yell "Viva Mexico" at Zocalo square in Mexico City. The party that ruled Mexico for most of the past century looked set for a comeback on Sunday as voters chose a new president, seeking an end to a brutal drugs war and weak economic growth that have worn down the ruling conservatives. "Yosoy132" is a social movement pushing for the democratization of the country and its media.
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July 1, 2012
Josefina Vazquez Mota, presidential candidate of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), is surrounded by reporters outside a polling station, as she waves to supporters after casting her vote in the general elections, in Huixquilucan, Mexico. Mexico's more than 79 million voters head to the polls Sunday to elect a president as well as 500 congressional deputies and 128 senators.
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July 1, 2012
Mexican President Felipe Calderon, left — accompanied by his wife, Margarita Zavala, and a son — votes during general election in Mexico City.
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July 1, 2012
A child helps a man to cast his vote in Atlacomulco. Mexicans began voting for a new president on Sunday with the opposition party that dominated the country for most of the past century poised for a comeback after the ruling conservatives failed to provide strong growth or halt a brutal drugs war.
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July 1, 2012
Enrique Pena Nieto, right, presidential candidate for the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI) right, greets supporters after casting his vote during general elections in Atlacomulco, Mexico. According to polls, the PRI, holds a sizeable lead in these elections, after being kicked out of the top office by voters 12 years ago.
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July 1, 2012
The Mexican presidential candidate for the leftist coalition Progressive Movement of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, talks to journalists after casting his vote in Mexico City.
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July 1, 2012
A man casts his ballot for president at a polling station in Santiago Xalitzintla, in the Mexican state of Puebla.
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July 1, 2012
Workers prepare a polling station in downtown Mexico City. The cardboad reads "(The Vote) Is Free and Secret."
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July 1, 2012
A poll supervisor instructs voters to go to a different voting station as polls opened for presidential elections in Mexico City. Published instructions by the Federal Election Institute (IFE) had given false information to some voters on polling locales. Mexicans went to the polls nationwide to choose a new president and vote in thousands of state and local posts.
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