For the first time in 200 years, Mexico has its first female president after the official candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, will sweep the elections.
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As the polls had predicted, the successor of Andrés Manuel López Obrador reached between 58.6% and 60.7% of the votes castwhile her closest opponent, the candidate of the opposition coalition, Xóchitl Gálvez, obtained between 26% and 28% of preferences.
In addition, Sheinbaum swept the formation of Congress together with its partners from the Green Party and the Labor Party, which could be extended to the Senateand that would generate a almost total support of the Legislature to Executive initiatives.
“Mexicans have recognized the resultsthe convictions and the will of our project,” said Sheinbaum after learning the results.
“Mexico has shown that It is a democratic country with peaceful elections“, he added in statements collected by El País, stating that “I don’t arrive alone, we all arrive”.
“We will walk in peace and harmony for a more prosperous and fair country,” said the president-elect.
Claudia Sheinbaum will assume as the new president of Mexico starting next October 1.
