Enrique Pena Nieto elected President of Mexico
According to the first official vote count results from Mexico's Federal Electoral Authority (IFE), the candidate of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and the Environmental Green Party (PVEM), Enrique Pena Nieto, has won the election.The presidential election took place on July 1.
According to the IFE's announcement, according to the quick results from localities nationwide, lawyer Nieto won about 38% of the votes, more than his opponent, the left-wing Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) candidate Manuel López Obrador, who came in second with votes ranging from 30.9% to 31.86%.
PRI presidential candidate Enrique Pena Nieto and supporters during an election campaign in San Luis Potosi on May 9. (Source: AFP/VNA)
Also according to the above results, the representative of the ruling National Action Party (PAN), Ms. Josefina Vázquez Mota, only received 25.1% to 26.03% of the vote. Meanwhile, the representative of the New Alliance Party, Mr. Gabriel Quadri, achieved the minimum number of votes ranging from 2.27% to 2.57% to be able to keep the registration to continue operating.
Speaking to the press, IFE President Leondardo Valdes said the above results were based on statistics at 7,500 polling stations across the country with the participation of more than 62% of voters, equivalent to 49 million Mexican voters.
This is considered the highest number ever in a presidential election in the Central American country.
Immediately after the announcement by the IFE chairman, outgoing Mexican President Felipe Calderón made a short televised speech. Mr. Calderón acknowledged the results of the IFE, while emphasizing his readiness to cooperate with the new government.
With this result, analysts assessed that Mr. Nieto's victory marked the return to power of the PRI party, which had led Mexico for 70 years until it was defeated by the National Action Party (PNA) of Mr. Vicente Fox in 2000.
On the morning of July 1, Mexican voters went to the polls to elect a new president, 128 senators, 500 federal congressmen, 6 state governors and more than 2,000 district-level positions across Mexico./.
According to VNA - DT
