Mexico City, June 3 (RHC)-- The candidate for the presidency of Mexico for the Morena party, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, won the elections held this Sunday with 58.86 percent of the valid votes cast, according to the preliminary official results released by the National Electoral Institute (INE).
Having scrutinized over 30 percent of the electoral records (10,568 of the 170,648 installed throughout the country), Sheinbaum Pardo, of the ruling coalition Let's continue making history, obtains 1,869,005 votes, equivalent to 58.86 percent.
This Sunday's day passed calmly and without major incidents. In a message to the country at the end of the elections, the INE thanked the participation and effort of the Mexican people throughout the day.
"I want to express my deepest gratitude to each of the citizens who are actively participating in this process. Their dedication and effort are fundamental for our democracy to work," highlighted the Presidential Counselor of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei Zavala. The election day had 57.79 percent citizen participation.
Morena Party, polls and results announce victory of candidate Claudia Sheinbaum
The national leader of the Mexican Morena party, Mario Delgado, announced this Sunday the victory of the country's presidential candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum.
In a press conference after the closing of the polls and the beginning of the counting of the votes to announce the official results announced by the National Electoral Institute (INE), Delgado stated that "Claudia Sheinbaum will be the first female president in our history and North America."
"There is no doubt about the triumph of Claudia Sheinbaum. A woman who has conquered the people of Mexico. She comes hand in hand with a popular movement that has touched Mexican men and women. A peaceful revolution of values that has permeated to the depths of the society," he said.
Delgado highlighted that Claudia Sheinbaum has dedicated a good part of her life to walking alongside the current president Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whom he classified as the "greatest leader of our times."
Likewise, he specified that Sheinbaum's victory represents an unfulfilled triumph for many Mexican grandmothers. And, for the people of the Aztec country, it means "a leap towards complementarity and balance, closing the mouth of a morally and politically tiny opposition."
"Today sovereignty, independence and democracy have also triumphed. The people have shown that they should not be fooled by hate campaigns or lies, the votes defeated the bots," he stressed.
