translated from Spanish: PRI ahead in Coahuila and Morena claims to win major Hidalgo cities

Coahuila and Hidalgo had elections on Sunday, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, so people came to vote with measures such as the use of water covers, on a day when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) already had favorable preliminary results at night in the northern entity of the country, while Morena boasted winning the major cities in Hidalguense territory and reported several irregularities.
The PRI had an advantage in 16 of the 16 districts to renew the Coahuila Congress, until 9:30 p.m. in the preliminary election results program, with a 53% advance in the capture of the minutes.
Its leader, Alejandro Moreno, celebrated that his party had swept through the entity that governs the priista Miguel Riquelme; although on the other hand the leader of Morena, Alfonso Ramírez Cuéllar, in addition to reporting irregularities in the day, such as practices of buying the vote and using the police to assault supporters of his party and inhibit the vote, said at a press conference that they were still in the dispute of 9 electoral districts. Among them, the 6 of the Lagoon, Piedras Negras, Acuña and Sabinas.
“In both states, the PRI competed with our party’s own candidates, women and men. We went alone in both elections. The PRI believes in the agreements, and the coalitions, but it is clear that the PRI is back, that we won again and that in 2021, with proposal, with projects and very organized, we will regain the confidence of the citizens to serve Mexico,” the Priista leader mentioned, taking stock of the voting day that had been postponed since June, by the COVID pandemic.
In the case of Hidalgo, ruled by the priista Miguel Fayad, the PRI presumed to have “favorable” results, although in its statement it did not give a figure of how many municipalities it could have an advantage in.
Morena, meanwhile, was proclaimed the winner in “the main cities”, such as the capital Pachuca, Mineral de la Reforma, Tulancingo, Tizayuca, Actopan. Municipalities that, according to the leader of Morena, would allow them to govern almost 70% of the population of the entity.
Ramirez Cuéllar also accused the PRI in Hidalgo of having a “truly defiance of electoral fraud, as in the old days, where he uses money, public force”.
In this entity, the INE defined that the Preliminary Election Results Program (PREP) did not operate “as it did not meet the technical requirements required of these systems to generate the expected certainty of them”. Instead, the Electoral Institute decided to use an alternate system, although flaws were reported on its page.
Taking stock of the day, in which nearly 100 electronic ballot boxes were first used, the INE noted that “most of the reported incidents had to do with citizens who voted without appearing on the Nominal List” or without voter credential.
“Only in one case, in the municipality of Ixmiquilpan, in Hidalgo, was the vote definitively suspended because a person who burned an urn was presented. The incident, of which no injured person was reported, was reported to the authorities, although it was not possible to resume voting,” he said.
The holder of the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office on Electoral Crimes (FEDE), José Agustín Ortiz Pinchetti, said that election day in Coahuila and Hidalgo had been carried out without serious incidents.
As far as EDF complaints are made, he assured that only one was received, which he said was “a record.”
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Original source in Spanish