The candidate of the progressive platform (Morena, Pvem and Pt), Claudia Sheinbaum, will be the next president of Mexico, according to the rapid count published by the National Electoral Institute which shows a figure between 58.3% and 60.7% of votes.
This is an official statistical procedure designed with the aim of estimating the trend of the final voting results and the percentage of citizen participation. The result of the rapid count will have to be confirmed by the counting of the ballots, which should be completed late on Monday.
Preliminary polls, after the exit polls, had already confirmed Sheinbaum’s victory with 60.2% of the vote against 28.3% of Xochitl Gálvez, representative of PAN, PRI and PRD. Sheinbaum will thus become the first woman elected to the office of President of the Republic in the country.
Clara Brugada, candidate of the government coalition for mayor of Mexico City, has declared herself the winner of the elections in the country’s capital. At the close of the polls, the standard-bearer of the alliance between the National Regeneration Movement, the Labor Party and the Green Party ensured that, according to the exit polls, she had obtained a 15-point advantage over her opponents.
The Electoral Institute of Mexico calls for ‘respect’ of the vote
The president of the National Electoral Institute (INE) of Mexico, Guadalupe Taddei, called for “serenity and respect” for the political parties and candidates who proclaimed themselves winners without waiting for the official results of the elections. “I invite all political actors, candidates and their teams to maintain serenity and respect the established procedures,” Taddei said in a video published on the INE social profiles.
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