The official candidate Claudia Sheinbaum maintains a wide advantage this Sunday in the Mexican presidential electionswith almost 58% of the vote after having counted just over 10% of the votes, according to the preliminary count of the National Electoral Institute (INE), compared to 29% of its main rival, the opposition Xochitl Galvez.
According to the sample of just over 18,180 voting records, close to 10.7% of the total, as of 10:20 p.m. local time, Sheinbaum, candidate of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), has obtained 57.93% of votes at the national level.
According to these data, the candidate of the Force and Heart for Mexico coalition, composed of the National Action Parties (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Parties (PRI) and the Democratic Revolution (PRD), Xochitl Galvez, has achieved only 29.6% of the votes. While the candidate of the also opposition Citizen Movement (MC), Jorge Álvarez Máynezhas garnered 10% of the votes.
Of the 170,182 approved voting centers, the INE reported the installation of 169,884, 99.98%, with the participation of nearly 1.5 million officials.
The Central American country celebrated this Sunday the biggest elections in its history with more than 98 million people called to renew more than 20,000 positions, including the Presidency, the 500 deputies, the 128 senators and nine state governments. The electoral campaign has also been the most violent in the history of Mexico, with at least 30 candidates murdered.
Source: Lasexta
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