López Obrador's critics have depicted the elections as a chance to stop the still-popular president from concentrating more power and weakening checks and balances. A voter in Mexico City stands at a polling box during the midterm elections on Sunday. The elections represent the first mass public events in Mexico since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Fifteen of the country's 32 state governorships are at stake, and all 500 seats in the lower house of Congress. On Friday, a government electoral agency worker was shot to death in Tlaxcala state, near Mexico City.

Source: CBC News June 06, 2021 19:52 UTC