The official candidate of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, is in the lead in the presidential elections held this Sunday, according to the quick count published by the National Electoral Institute (INE), which gives her a wide advantage over the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez, who hours before had assured that he had won victory at the polls.
The president of the organization, Guadalupe Taddei, has indicated in a public appearance issued by the INE through her account on the social network Gálvez has obtained between 26.6 and 28.6 percent of the ballots. In third place is Jorge Álvarez Máynez, with between 9.9 and 10.8 percent of the support.
“This exercise, based on a representative statistical sample of the polling stations installed throughout the country, has been carried out by a technical advisory committee,” said Taddei, who has detailed that the data includes the analysis of 5,651 polling stations, which represents 74.3 percent of the total sample.
Claudia Sheinbaum, the first female president of Mexico – Photo: José Méndez
Likewise, he stressed that these are “preliminary results, like those disseminated through the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP)” and added that “they are subject to confirmation of the district counts, which will begin on December 5 June at 8:00 a.m. (local time)”. On the other hand, he has estimated participation in the presidential elections between 60 and 61.5 percent.
Taddei has pointed out, however, that these data “represent a robust projection of the will expressed at the polls by the electorate”, while emphasizing that “the INE fulfills its mandate to guarantee transparency and certainty in electoral processes and will continue to work with transparency, fairness and commitment to ensure that every vote is counted and respected.”
If the results are confirmed, Sheinbaum will become the first woman in the National Palace of Mexico, in a country known for its high rates of gender violence where femicide rates are among the highest in the region.
However, Gálvez has affirmed that he has won the elections, before pointing out that he will wait for the publication of the official results so that they “simply ratify this victory.” Likewise, he has made a “respectful and energetic” appeal to the acting president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, to “respect the vote of the Mexicans.”
Results in the Congressional elections
On the other hand, Taddei has also provided the quick count data in the elections to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, in which the National Regeneration Movement (Morena) of Sheinbaum and López Obrador has won a large victory.
Thus, it has been revealed that the quick count in the Senate, carried out in 1,090 polling stations, “which represent 67.3 percent of the total sample”, gives Morena between 41.9 and 44 percent of the votes. votes, with between 57 and 60 seats. Behind is the National Action Party (PAN), with between 15.8 and 17.9 percent of the votes, which represents between 19 and 22 senators.
Taddei has stated that third place is in dispute between the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) – with between 10.7 and 12.3 percent of the votes – and Movimiento Ciudadano – with between 10.9 and twelve percent of the votes–, while behind them are the Green Ecologist Party, with between 8.6 and 9.8 percent, the Labor Party, with between 5.3 and 6.5 percent; and the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), with between two and 2.7 percent.
On the other hand, he has indicated that Morena has also won the victory in the Chamber of Deputies, with a count carried out in 3,107 electoral colleges, “67.4 percent of the total”, given that the party has won between 41.2 and 42.8 percent of the ballots, well ahead of the second party in support, the PAN, which has achieved between 17.3 and 18.7 percent of the support.
Likewise, in this case the third place would be in dispute between the PRI – with between 11.1 and 11.9 percent of the votes – and the Citizen Movement – with between 11.1 and twelve percent. cent–, while behind them are the Green Ecologist Party, with between 8.1 and 9.1 percent; the Labor Party, with between 5.3 and 61 percent; the PRD, with between 2.4 and 3.1 percent –and facing the possibility of not achieving representation–; and the independents, who aspire to a maximum of 0.9 percent of the ballots.
More than 99.5 million Mexicans were called to the polls in the largest elections in their history, with more than 20,000 positions at stake, including the composition of the new Congress, made up of almost 630 seats between the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. All of this in the midst of a campaign also marked by violence, in which around thirty candidates have been murdered.
