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Sheinbaum will be the first president of Mexico after winning the elections with a 30-point lead
The ruling Claudia Sheinbaum will be the first woman president of Mexico after obtaining between 58.3% and 60.7% of the votes in this Sunday’s elections, according to the quick count of the National Electoral Institute (INE), against a range of between 26.6% and 28.6% of her main rival, the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez.
Meanwhile, the candidate of the opposition Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), Jorge Álvarez Máynez, would receive between 9.9% and 10.8% of the votes, according to the president of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, in a message on the national network.
The quick count of the INE is the first formal scrutiny of the autonomous body, which is based “on a representative statistical sample” of 5,651 voting centers with a confidence level of “at least 95%,” which allows “a robust projection” of who will win.
“I want to emphasize that these results are preliminary as well as those that are being disseminated through the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) and are subject to confirmation of the district calculations that will begin next Wednesday, June 5,” clarified the head of the INE.
In the absence of that confirmation, Claudia Sheinbaum thanked this Monday because “she will become the first female president of Mexico,” and projected a result that allows her to have the necessary majority to reform the Constitution in Congress.
And it is that Sheinbaum not only received the keys to the National Palace, but his coalition of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM), won a two-thirds majority of the Chamber of Deputies and, possibly, the Senate.
“I want to thank millions of Mexicans who decided to vote for us on this historic day to move forward with the fourth transformation of public life in our country,” he said in his first public statements after learning about the results advanced by the INE.
“Above all, it is the recognition of the people of Mexico for our transformation project. I am also grateful because, for the first time in 200 years of the republic, I will become the first female president of Mexico,” said Sheinbaum.
Tens of thousands of supporters gathered in the Zocalo of Mexico City, the largest public square in the country, to celebrate the triumph of Sheinbaum, a celebration that the still president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has also joined.
The opposition presidential candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, recognized on Monday the victory of the ruling Claudia Sheinbaum, although she said that she will demand results and solutions to the country’s great problems.
“I want to emphasize that my recognition is accompanied by a firm demand for results and solutions to the great problems of the country and the indispensable respect for the constitution and democratic institutions,” said the representative of the Force and Heart Coalition for Mexico.
In her first message after the National Electoral Institute (INE) announced the results of the quick count, the former senator said that she recognized the result for her love for Mexico.
On the other hand, the ruling Clara Brugada would also win the head of the Government of Mexico City, by registering between 49% and 52.8% of the votes in the quick count of the Electoral Institute of the Mexican capital (IECDMX).
Brugada, of the coalition of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), with the Labor Parties (PT), and the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM), relegated to second place the opponent Santiago Taboada, who would add between 37.2 and 40.5%, according to the official estimate of the institute.
Meanwhile, the candidate of the also opposition Citizen Movement (MC), Salomón Chertorivski, reached between 6.9% and 9.7% of the votes.
Mexico held this Sunday the largest election 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 for these elections has also been the most violent in the history of Mexico, with at least 30 candidates killed.
International
Uribe requests freedom amid appeal of historic bribery conviction
Former Colombian President Álvaro Uribe on Monday requested that the Supreme Court restore his freedom while he appeals the historic 12-year house arrest sentence he received for bribery and procedural fraud.
Uribe, the most prominent figure of Colombia’s right wing, was convicted last week by a lower court for attempting to bribe paramilitary members into denying his ties to the violent anti-guerrilla squads.
Since Friday, the 73-year-old has been under house arrest at his residence in Rionegro, about 30 km from Medellín. The judge justified the measure by citing a risk of flight.
However, Uribe’s defense team rejected that argument and formally petitioned the court to immediately lift the detention order, claiming it lacks legal basis.
Uribe, a dominant force in Colombian politics for decades, is now the first former president in the country’s history to be convicted and placed under arrest, found guilty of witness tampering and obstruction of justice to prevent links to paramilitary groups.
He has repeatedly denounced the trial as politically motivated, blaming pressure from the leftist government currently in power.
His political party, Centro Democrático, has called for nationwide protests on August 7 in support of Uribe, who remains popular for his hardline stance against guerrilla groups.
Uribe has until August 13 to submit his written appeal. The case will then move to the Bogotá High Court, which has until October 16 to uphold, overturn, or dismiss the sentence. If the deadline passes without a decision, the case will be archived.
International
U.S. Embassy staff restricted as gunfire erupts near compound in Port-au-Prince
The poorest country in Latin America and the Caribbean is currently engulfed in a deep political crisis and a wave of violence driven by armed groups — a situation that an international security mission led by Kenya is attempting to stabilize.
Due to the worsening security conditions, the U.S. government has suspended all official movements of embassy personnel outside the compound in Port-au-Prince, the U.S. State Department announced Monday in a security alert posted on social media platform X.
“There are intense gunfights in the Tabarre neighborhood, near the U.S. Embassy,” the alert reads, urging the public to avoid the area.
Tabarre is a municipality located near Port-au-Prince International Airport, northeast of the Haitian capital.
According to a July report by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, at least 3,141 people were killed in Haitibetween January 1 and June 30 of this year.
International
Israel says 136 food aid boxes airdropped into Gaza by six nations
The Israeli military announced on Sunday that 136 boxes of food aid were airdropped into Gaza by the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, and Belgium.
“In recent hours, six countries conducted air drops of 136 aid packages containing food for residents in the southern and northern Gaza Strip,” read the statement, which added that the operation was coordinated by COGAT, the Israeli defense body overseeing civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli military emphasized that they will “continue working to improve the humanitarian response alongside the international community” and reiterated their stance to “refute false allegations of deliberate famine in Gaza.”
The announcement comes as UN agencies warn Gaza faces an imminent risk of famine. More than one in three residents go days without eating, and other nutrition indicators have dropped to their worst levels since the conflict began.
The agencies also noted the difficulty of “collecting reliable data in current conditions, as Gaza’s health systems —already devastated by nearly three years of conflict— are collapsing.”
Meanwhile, Gaza’s Hamas-run Health Ministry reported on Sunday that hospitals in the enclave recorded six deaths from hunger and malnutrition on Saturday, all of them adults.
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