The official candidate, Claudia Sheinbaum, expressed her gratitude this Monday because “she will become the first female president of Mexico,” while predicting that she will win the majority necessary to reform her country’s Constitution in Congress after a quick count by the National Institute. Electoral (INE).
“I am also grateful because, for the first time in 200 years of the Republic, I will become the first female president of Mexico. And, as I have said on other occasions, I do not arrive alone, we all arrive with our heroines who gave us our homeland, with our ancestors,” said the elected president in a message in Mexico City.
These were Sheinbaum’s first statements after a quick count by the INE, in which a range of between 58.3% and 60.7% of the votes for the official candidate is officially estimated, above the 26.6% to 28.6% of her closest electoral rival, the candidate Xóchitl Gálvez, and 9.9% to 10.8% of Jorge Álvarez Máynez.
Likewise, the president-elect anticipated that her alliance with the three parties, among them, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), with the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM) would take the qualified majority, of two thirds of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, with which he will be able to carry out the reform of the Constitution without having to negotiate with the opposition.
Thanks to the alliance, he planned to promote the policies of the Mexican executive, Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
“I want to thank the millions of Mexican men and women who decided to vote for us on this historic day to advance with the fourth transformation of public life in our country,” he expressed.
Sheinbaum, former head of Government of Mexico City, from 2018 to 2023, promised during her campaign to continue with the current president’s projects, while Gálvez’s opposition alliance accused her of representing “authoritarianism.”
Among the reforms to the Mexican Constitution that López proposed is the militarization of the National Guard, a modification to the electoral system and electing judges and members of the Supreme Court by popular vote.
But Sheinbaum stressed that he conceives “a plural, diverse and democratic Mexico” in which “dissent is part of democracy.”
“And although the majority of the people supported our project, our duty is and will always be to look after each and every one of the Mexicans without distinction,” he asserted.
In addition, he promised to “guarantee freedoms of expression, of the press, of assembly, of concentration and mobilization.”
“We are democrats and by conviction we would never create an authoritarian or repressive government. We will also respect political, social, cultural and religious diversity, gender and sexual diversity,” he assured.
Likewise, he committed to an “honest government, without influence, without corruption, or impunity, it will be a government with republican austerity, financial and fiscal discipline, and autonomy of the Bank of Mexico.”
The Latin American country held the largest elections in its history on Sunday with more than 98 million people called to vote and renew more than 20,000 positions, including the presidency, the 500 deputies, 128 senators and nine state governments.
It must be taken into account that the electoral campaign has been the bloodiest in the history of Mexico, with nearly 30 candidates murdered.
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