Burning of Ballot Boxes Prompts Mexican Officials Suspend Elections Near Ayotzinapa

Burning of Ballot Boxes Prompts Mexican Officials Suspend Elections Near Ayotzinapa


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Demonstrators in the town of Tixtla, Guerrero burn electoral materials in an act of protest against elections they
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Published 7 June 2015

Teachers from Ayotzinapa and relatives of the 43 missing students burned more than 20 percent of the electoral boxes and ballots.

Electoral authorities in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero decided to annul the elections in the municipality of Tixtla Sunday, after teachers trainees from Ayotzinapa and relatives of the 43 students missing from the school burned more than 20 percent of the electoral boxes and ballots deployed for that area.

Mexico is holding midterm elections this Sunday, more than 83 million people eligible to vote for candidates to the 500 seats in the lower house of Congress, nine of 31 governorships and hundreds of mayorships and local posts.

However the electoral process has been marred by protests and calls for boycott, as anger over violence and corruption in the country rises.



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