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Voting in the western state of Jalisco began quietly Sunday in statewide elections seen as a referendum on the ruling National Action Party, officials said.
Voters were deciding on representatives in 124 municipalities and a total of 40 deputies in the state legislature in one of Mexico’s most important states.
The polling is seen as a referendum on the right-wing National Action Party, which controls the state governor’s seat and the state Congress and most of the municipalities.
The party has come under attack in the past for suggesting curfews and for saying that suggestive advertisements for bras be removed from public view. In response, the still powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party has mounted an all-out campaign.
