Claudia Sheinbaum will be the first president of Mexico with full authority: according to the quick count data of the National Electoral Institute (INE), she will do so as the candidate with the most votes received in the recent history of the country, 59.5%, more than six points above the 53.2% that his predecessor, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, obtained in the 2018 elections.
“We reached close to 35 million votes,” said Sheinbaum, a scientist, environmentalist and left-wing politician who has been head of the Government of Mexico City, in her speech in the capital’s Zócalo Square after proclaiming herself the winner. “We made history on June 2.”
After hours of waiting, the president advisor of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, offered the quick count data at the stroke of midnight. These give the candidate of the ruling party Morena and her Let’s keep making history coalition, which also makes up the Green Party and the Labor Party, a range that goes between 58.3% and 60.7% of the votes and an advantage of approximately 30 points over the candidate of the opposition alliance, Xóchitl Gálvez, who obtained a range of between 26.6% and 28.6%. In a distant third place, with between 9.9% and 10.8% of the votes, is Jorge Álvarez Máynez, from Movimiento Ciudadano.
Although the final data will not be available until the next few hours, according to the calculation made with the participation data and the ranges of votes for the candidates offered by the INE, Sheinbaum has been elected by nearly 35.49 million Mexicans, 5 million more than what López Obrador obtained six years ago, which had already been a historical maximum.
The president, who leaves the presidency with high popularity ratings, recognized the new milestone in his congratulatory speech to his successor: “Claudia Sheinbaum was the winner in this race by a wide margin, she will be the first president of Mexico in 200 years. […] but also the president, possibly with the most votes obtained in the entire history of our country,” he said in a video he recorded from the Government Palace.
Although these have been the largest elections in the history of Mexico with a registry of almost 98.3 million citizens, nine million more than six years ago, the percentage of participation was somewhat lower than in 2018. The INE estimates that this Sunday they voted between 60% and 61.5%, more than 2.5 points below the elections in which López Obrador won.
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