Government candidate Claudia Sheinbaum will be the first female president of Mexico after obtaining between 58.3% and 60.7% of the votes in this Sunday’s elections (2), according to the preliminary count by the National Electoral Institute of Mexico (INE).
His main opponent, the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez, obtained a range between 26.6% and 28.6% of support at the polls, while the Citizen Movement candidate, Jorge Álvarez Máynez, received between 9.9% and 10.8% of the votes. wishes.
The INE quick count is the first formal calculation by the autonomous body, which is based “on a representative statistical sample” of 5,651 voting centers with a confidence level of “at least 95%”, which allows “a robust projection” who will win.
“I want to emphasize that these results are preliminary, just like those being released through the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) and are subject to confirmation by the district counts that will begin next Wednesday, June 5th,” informed the head of INE, Guadalupe Taddei.
In this way, Sheinbaum, former head of government in Mexico City (2018-2023), will become the successor to the current president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, on October 1st.
Before the INE results, the candidate of the ruling National Regeneration Movement (Morena) received congratulations from Costa Rica’s representatives, Rodrigo Chaves; Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo; Honduras, Xiomara Castro, and Colombia, Gustavo Petro.
Thousands of supporters gathered in Constitution Square in Mexico City to celebrate Sheinbaum’s triumph.
INE estimated a participation of between 60% and 61.5% in this Sunday’s elections, the largest in the country’s history, with more than 98 million people who were called to renew more than 20 thousand positions, including the presidency, the 500 deputies and the 128 senators.
The electoral campaign for these elections was also the most violent in Mexico’s history, with at least 30 candidates murdered. (With EFE Agency)
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