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The victory of Andrés Manuel López Obrador starts a new era in Mexico
![Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, will be the next president of Mexico according to the rapid count of the National Electoral Institute (INE)]()
Through the official account of the Presidency of the United States, @POTUS, President Donald Trump congratulated Andrés Manuel López Obrador and said he looks forward to meeting with him to start working for the benefit of the two countries. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, candidate of the Juntos Haremos Historia coalition, will be the next president of Mexico according to the rapid count of the National Electoral Institute (INE)
Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won Sunday’s presidential election by a landslide, ushering in a new era in Mexican politics that could have profound implications for the country’s domestic and international policies — including its relationship with the United States.
THE result was predictable, but earth-shaking even so. On July 1st Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a charismatic populist, won Mexico’s presidency in the country’s first democratic landslide. His margin of victory suggests that his electoral coalition will control congress and the government of Mexico City, the capital, giving Mr López Obrador unprecedented power for a modern president. As in America and parts of Europe, an angry electorate has repudiated the established political elite. In Mexico’s case voters have elected an unpredictable leftist.
Mr Lopez Obrador, a 64-year-old ex-mayor of Mexico City who has run for the presidency twice before, came out on top of the election commissioner’s preliminary count, released shortly before midnight, with about 53% of the vote. His nearest challenger, Ricardo Anaya of the National Action Party (PAN), trailed far behind with 22%. José Antonio Meade of the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) won a dismal 16%. The size of Mr López Obrador’s victory was not a surprise: he has led in the polls by double-digit margins since March. It suggests that his coalition, Juntos haremos historia (“Together we will make history”), will be able to form a congressional majority when results are tallied in the coming days.
