The former mayor of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum (left), was elected the first woman president in the history of Mexico, according to the first official results announced Monday June 3 by the National Electoral Institute (INE).
She totals between 58 and 60% of the votes, far ahead of her opposition rival, the former center-right senator Xochitl Galvez, credited with 26 to 28% of the votes for this one-round election, said the president. of INE Guadalupe Taddei. Centrist Jorge Alvarez Maynez obtained between 9 and 10% of the vote.
“I will not disappoint you” promised the elected president of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, in her first statements to a television channel. “I will become the first female president of Mexico,” she then added to her supporters, announcing that her party the Movement for National Regeneration (Morena) had won the “qualified majority” in Congress.