MEXICAN VOTERS WENT TO THE POLLS SUNDAY TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO CURRENT PRESIDENT VICENTE FOX WHO IS DUE TO STAND DOWN IN DECEMBER, DPA REPORTED. APPROXIMATELY 71 MILLION PEOPLE WERE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE. INITIAL RESULTS ARE EXPECTED IN THE EARLY HOURS OF MONDAY. "IT IS A LUCKY DAY FOR MEXICO, TO HAVE THE POWER TO CHOSE OUR NEW PRESIDENT," SAID FOX AS HE CAST HIS VOTE. ABOUT 600 INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS, INCLUDING 65 EXPERTS FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION, ARE IN MEXICO OVERSEEING THE ELECTION PROCESS. IN ADDITION TO A NEW PRESIDENT, VOTERS ARE ALSO CHOOSING 500 PARLIAMENTARY DEPUTIES AND 128 SENATORS. RESULTS OF THE PARLIAMENTARY POLL SHOULD BE RELEASED MID-WEEK.
