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.
Video Mexico, Sheinbaum is the first female president
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.
The winner’s speech – “I will not let you down,” Claudia Sheinbaum told voters during her victory speech. “For the first time in 200 years of the Republic, there will be a female president and she will be transformative. Thanks to all Mexicans. Today we have demonstrated with our vote that we are a democratic people”, she then added in a message on social media.
The president-elect also thanked her direct opponent, the conservative candidate Xóchitl Gálvez Ruiz, for calling her on the phone to acknowledge her victory. “I have always been a Democrat. I recognize that the trend of the presidential elections does not favor me,” Gálvez said from her electoral bunker, the Hotel Presidente de Polanco, in Mexico City. “I recognized the result because I love Mexico and I know that if your government does well, our country will do well,” Gálvez added. “Without a doubt, it is a great historical milestone that our country has its first female president,” she continued.
Sheinbaum then extended special thanks to the current Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, whose baton he takes up. “An exceptional and unique man who transformed the history of our country for the better,” said Sheinbaum, candidate of Morena, the same party as Obrador.
Claudia Sheinbaum then dedicated her victory to women, underlining that she is the first female president of the country. “As I have already said on other occasions, I do not arrive alone. We have all arrived, with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our ancestors, our mothers, our daughters and our granddaughters”, she said in his first speech addressing the voters.
“Our government will be honest, without influence, without corruption or impunity,” Sheinbaum later said. The 62-year-old politician, coming from a family of Lithuanian and Bulgarian Jewish origins, also guaranteed that her executive will respect “political, social, cultural and religious diversity, gender and sexual diversity” and that it will fight “all forms of discrimination” .
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.
Progressive Latin American leaders celebrate Sheinbaum
Latin America’s left-wing leaders and former presidents celebrated progressive Claudia Sheinbaum’s victory in Mexican elections on social media, according to official preliminary results. Among the first statements stands out that of Xiomara Castro, who “as the first female president of Honduras” wrote on social media that she had “agreed by telephone to work together for the unity of Latin America and the Caribbean”.
“Mexico has elected its first female president. Together with her it celebrates a people strengthened by democracy and hope for a better future”, posted the president of Guatemala, Bernardo Arévalo, while the Colombian Gustavo Petro underlined that Mexico ” elected a progressive as the first president in its history.”
The former president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, published a video in which he hugged Sheinbaum, who he was with when the first results arrived. Also present on the occasion was the former president of Bolivia, Evo Morales, who described Sheinbaum as “very humble and very committed”. Congratulations to Sheinbaum then came from another former female president, the Argentine Cristina Fernández de Kirchner.
Von der Leyen congratulates Sheinbaum, ‘historic election’
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, congratulated Claudia Sheinbaum on her “historic election as the first female president of Mexico”. “Mexico and the EU share deep historical, economic and cultural ties. I look forward to strengthening our bilateral relations under your leadership”; wrote von der Leyen in a message on X.
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