Mexico prepares to elect first female president as violence erupts at polling centers

Voting was suspended at one polling site as the country is expected to vote in leftist Claudia Sheinbaum over Xochitl Galvez

Two people were killed in violence at polling centers on Sunday in the midst of Mexico’s historic election expected to make leftist Claudia Sheinbaum, the ruling party candidate, the country’s first female president.

Voting was suspended at one polling place after a person was killed in a shooting in Coyomeapan, a town in the state of Puebla, the state electoral authority reported in the afternoon. The state attorney general confirmed another death at a polling center in Tlapanala, also in Puebla.

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