Polls close in Mexican presidential election

Polls have closed in Mexico’s presidential election, in which voters seem set to bring the PRI, the party that ran the country for seven decades, back to power.

Nearly 80 million Mexicans were eligible to cast ballots in Sunday’s vote. Election officials are expected to announce the first official results at around 04:45 GMT on Monday.

Final results are expected later in the week, 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…  (more)

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