López Obrador wins the presidential elections in Mexico

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It is the first time that a leftist candidate wins the presidential elections. Although the count has not ended, the electoral Authority and the rest of the candidates have recognized their victory.

 

The National Electoral Institute (INE) of Mexico has confirmed this Sunday at the last minute the victory of the leftist candidate for the Presidency of the country, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has won at least 53% of the votes, according to the data of the Rapid count after the presidential elections held this Sunday. It is the first time that a leftist candidate wins the presidential elections.

López Obrador has achieved victory with 53.5% of the votes, according to the provisional results with 36.1% of the minutes counted. In second place, the candidate of the conservative National Action Party (PAN), Ricardo Anaya, obtained between 22.95% of the votes. In third place would be the candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), José Antonio Meade, who achieved between 15.07%. In last place is the independent candidate Jaime Rodríguez Calderón, the Bronco, with 5.73% of the votes.

The percentage of participation was between 62.9 and 63.8%.

These data were taken from the records of some 7,700 polling stations of the nearly 157,000 that were installed throughout the country. However, these do not constitute the final results of the electoral contest, which will not be announced officially until Wednesday, July 4.

More than 89 million Mexicans were called to the polls this Sunday to renew 3,400 positions, making these elections the largest in the history of the country. In addition to the president, 128 senators, 500 deputies, eight governors and the head of government of Mexico City were elected, in addition to thousands of local offices.

Both the electoral authority and the rest of the candidates have recognized the victory of López Obrador. The third was the defeat, after his defeats in a presidential election in 2006 and 2012, which he attributed to electoral fraud.

In his first speech from the Plaza de la Constitución in Mexico City, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 64, has promised to "banish corruption" and eradicate impunity. López Obrador has explained that the "new project of the nation seeks to establish an authentic democracy" and has assured that it has no intention of "building an open or covert dictatorship." In addition, he stressed that give greater preference to the "most humble and forgotten, especially indigenous peoples."