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Security & Strategic Review - June 2025
MEXICO: Judicial elections spark security fears
In the weeks running up to Mexico’s unprecedented judicial elections on 1 June, several civil society organisations warned of the potential risk of violence against candidates, given the worsening trend of electoral violence in the country. While 2024’s electoral process was widely considered the deadliest in Mexico’s history [SSR-24-07], the run-up to the judicial vote appeared less affected by attacks on candidates, with headlines dominated by the fatal attack on a candidate for local political elections in Veracruz state instead. However, as rights groups have pointed out, the nature of the judicial elections is fundamentally different from that of typical electoral processes, meaning the ways in which organised crime interacted with the elections was likely different too.
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