MEXICO CITY — Early this Monday, the National Electoral Institute (INE) released the first report of the electoral results that give the official candidate Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president in Mexico, as the winner.
Guadalupe Taddey announced the quick count that gave Sheinbaum, the official candidate, an advantage of between 58.3% and 60.7%. Sheinbaum beat the center-right opponent Xóchitl Gálvez, whose vote is between 26% and 28%. The centrist Jorge Álvarez Máynez obtained at least 9.9% of the votes, according to the electoral official.
Meanwhile, the dissemination of preliminary results progressed slowly early Monday, with 31.07% of the votes counted.
Claudia Sheinbaum appeared after the INE gave the preliminary results. She thanked the Mexicans for the victory and said “I am not going to let them down.”
Sheinbaum offered to build a “just and more prosperous Mexico” and admitted that dissent is part of democracy so he will look after “everyone without distinction.”
The virtual winner said that the ruling party won the Chamber of Deputies and hopes to also win the Senate Chamber.
He also thanked Xochitl Gálvez, who he said had called him by phone acknowledging his victory.
Hours before, the presidential candidate of the coalition made up of the PAN, PRI and PRD parties, Xóchitl Gálvez, had declared herself the winner after the polls closed; However, exit polls and preliminary results of the INE They announced that the ruling party’s leftist candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, was ahead of Gálvez.
According to the Enkoll firm, Sheinbaum, 61 years old and a candidate for the ruling party, obtained 57.8% of the votes against 28.57% for the center-right Xóchitl Gálvez and 11.4% for Jorge Álvarez Máynez (center).
Two other polls by the media Televisa and El Financiero project Sheinbaum as a “winner”, without yet revealing percentages.
Early Monday morning, Gálvez asked people through his X account, formerly Twitter, not to go to sleep. “Stay attentive and awake.” The votes are there. Let’s not allow them to hide them,” said Gálvez.
“I had told them for months that we were going to win these elections despite all the traps, all the lies, despite all the abuse of power and their millions of pesos diverted to help their candidate; Also, I make a respectful and energetic call to President López Obrador to respect the vote of Mexicans,” Gálvez said after the voting closed.
He also asked his followers to send him the results in their inboxes.
Referendum
The elections are considered a referendum of the administration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and the presidency was played between the candidate of the ruling Morena party, Claudia Sheinbaum, former mayor of the capital, and the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez, who heads the coalition formed by a conservative party (the PAN), a leftist one (the PRD) and the one that governed Mexico for seven decades of the 20th century (the PRI).
Gálvez made a broadcast through social networks. He said they have had an extraordinarily high turnout. “It has been moving to see the long lines of citizens waiting for hours under the sun to vote. I myself spent three hours lined up at my polling station to be able to vote.”
The presidential candidate asked the representatives of the parties that support her candidacy not to leave the polling stations until the vote count is finished and the minutes are received, as well as to guard and accompany all the electoral packages until they are delivered to the district committee. .
She thanked Mexicans for voting for her and the election officials.
He emphasized taking care of the vote. “Let us not forget, we are competing against authoritarianism and power and they are capable of anything.”
He said that participation was greater than 80% in some polls. “I make a respectful and energetic call to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador to respect the vote of Mexicans.”
He also announced that despite having data that reveals his victory, he will wait for the official results from the National Electoral Institute (INE) “simply to ratify this victory.”
Official candidate remains silent
The official candidate Claudia Sheinbaum chose not to make statements until she had official results. In his place, after closing the polls, the president of the Morena party spoke, Mario Delgado, who assured that his exit polls give a “very wide advantage, two to one difference.”
“There is no doubt about the triumph of Claudia Sheinbaum,” Delgado said in a message to the press. “Claudia Sheinbaum will be the first female president in our history and in North America,” she added.
For the political leader, Sheinbaum “represents the irrefutable triumph of women to leave machismo behind.”
The preliminary count will begin at 8 pm local (0200 GMT), one hour after the total closure of the polls in Mexico.
Source: EDITORIAL and AFP
