The party of the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador,
Morena, lost the absolute majority in the Chamber of Deputies
, according to the results of the quick count of the 2021 federal elections that the president of the National Electoral Institute presented this Sunday around midnight, Lorenzo Córdova.
The party in power will go from having 253 deputies (two more than necessary for a simple majority) in the current legislature to between 190 and 203 deputies.
However, Morena retains a simple majority (greater than 250 seats) in the Chamber of Deputies in coalition with his allies: the Labor Party (between 35 and 41 votes) and the Green Ecologist (between 40 and 48 votes), thus which
would reach up to 265 or 282 councils
, according to the quick count estimates.
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For its part, the opposition, represented in the National Action Party (PAN), Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and Democratic Revolution (PRD)
would obtain between 181 and 213 deputations
as a coalition.
Individually, the PAN would have between 106 and 117 deputies;
the PRI 63 and 75 and the PRD 12 and 21.
The Citizen Movement, which has been presented as a third way, would obtain between 20 and 27 deputies.
According to these preliminary results,
Morena would have obtained around 35%
of the votes in the federal election for deputies;
PAN 19%;
the PRI 18%;
the PRD 3.5%, the PVEM 5.5%;
the PT 3.1% and Movimiento Ciudadano 7.1%.
The exit poll of the newspaper El Financiero predicted that Morena would get 40% of the vote in that election, while the PAN would reach 20%, the PRI at 21% and the PRD at 3%.
Currently Morena has 253 deputies, enough to reach a simple majority without allying with any other force.
A person deposits the electoral ballot in the federal elections of Mexico;
on June 6, 2021.AP
According to the quick count presented by Córdova, based on a representative sample of the ballot papers,
participation in this election ranged between 51.7% and 52.5%.
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Morena leads in at least
11 states,
according to preliminary counts: Sonora, Sinaloa, Nayarit, Baja California, Tlaxcala, Zacatecas, Campeche, Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima, San Luis Potosí (in coalition).
While the Coalition Goes for Mexico (PAN, PRI) leads in Chihuahua and the PAN, alone, is ahead in Querétaro.
In
Nuevo León
, the richest border state in the country,
the candidate of the Citizen Movement, Samuel García, shows a clear advantage
over the candidate of the coalition Goes for Mexico (PAN, PRI, PRD), Adrián de la Garza, according to data from the quick count.
In
Campeche
, a close election is also recorded, although with a slight advantage from Layda Sansores, from Morena and PT.
The candidate takes 32.8% of the votes, followed by Eliseo Fernández from Movimiento Ciudadano (with 31.7%).
In
Tlaxcala
and
Zacatecas
, the candidates of Morena, PT, PVEM and PES, Lorena Cuéllar and David Monreal, respectively, show a slight advantage (of 47.8% and 48.7%, respectively) according to the aforementioned poll.
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In
Querétaro
, the PAN is projected as a solo winner, according to the quick count.
In
Chihuahua
, the Going for Mexico coalition shows a slight advantage, according to exit polls.
In
Guerrero,
Evelyn Salgado Pineda, who replaced her father Félix Salgado Macedonio as a candidate, accused of rape, is projected as the winner.
The quick count of the National Electoral Institute (INE) and the Electoral and Citizen Participation Institute of the State of Guerrero (IEPCEG) reveals that Salgado Pineda takes 47.4% of the votes with the coalition of parties that support the president.
In
Michoacán and Colima
Morena is projected as the winning party, while in
San Luis Potosí
the candidate of the Together We Make History coalition (Morena, PT and PVEM) traced the initial count.
In
Sonora,
the favorite is Alfonso Durazo, from Morena, with 51.7% of the votes, according
to preliminary data collected
by polling officials (Preliminary Electoral Results Program, PREP).
In
Nayarit
, Miguel Ángel Navarro Quintero, candidate of Morena, PT and PVEM, is the favorite to win, with 50.6% of the votes, according to the PREP.
In
Baja California
, the Morena, PT and PVEM candidate, Marina del Pilar Ávila Olmeda, has an advantage, with 48.4% of the votes, according to the PREP.
In
Baja California Sur
, the candidate of the Unidos Contigo coalition (PRI, PRD, PAN, Humanista and PRS) shows a clear advantage.
In
Sinaloa
, Morena's candidate, Rubén Ochoa, leads with 55.9% of the votes, according to the PREP.
“The Va por México coalition was a successful coalition.
It is clear that we will win most of the governorships where we ally.
It is the result of that sum of efforts, ”said Alejandro Moreno, president of the PRI.
"Minor and isolated" incidents
Election day passed peacefully, with some isolated incidents, which contrasted with the climate of violence that prevailed in the campaigns, during which 91 politicians were assassinated, 36 of whom were candidates or candidates.
A Mexican woman votes in Acapulco, Guerrero, on June 6, 2021.AP
It is estimated that only thirty polls out of more than 162,000 could not be installed due to outbreaks of violence, according to the president of the National Electoral Institute, Lorenzo Córdova.
99.8% of the polling stations were installed, although in some there were delays.
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"It is a confirmation that today a true democratic party is taking place for all Mexican men and women," Córdova said before the polls closed.
At least 65 people were arrested for electoral crimes in Baja California, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, San Luis Potosí, the State of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Oaxaca, Tabasco and Chiapas.
"Long live democracy!"
López Obrador went to vote around 9:00 a.m. in the Historic Center of the capital on Calle de Moneda, wearing face masks and applying antibacterial gel before receiving three ballots to elect federal deputies, deputies to the Congress of Mexico City and the mayor of Cuauhtémoc.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, accompanied by his wife, Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, after attending this Sunday to cast their vote at a voting center in Mexico City.EFE / Mario Guzmán
"Long live democracy!", The president limited himself to saying as he left the voting center together with his wife, Gutiérrez Müller.
Then, he returned to the National Palace, from where he followed the course of the election.
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Despite the fact that the president is not on the ballot, his management seemed to affect the voting of some voters
.
"The pandemic was poorly managed,"
Teresita Loza, 53
, told
The Associated Press
news agency
, complaining about the government's handling of the crisis caused by the coronavirus.
While waiting in line to vote at a polling place in the Mexican capital, Loza, who admitted that he did not vote for López Obrador three years ago, complained about the lack of jobs and the deterioration of the health system, saying that the president simply gave money to unemployed old and young.
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Pedro González, a 51-year-old lawyer, was pessimistic about the situation in the country and said he fears that the Mexican leader is not willing to change course.
"I think we have to make a change,"
said González, stating that it is necessary to make adjustments in the way of doing politics. He said that he hoped that López Obrador's party would only achieve a simple majority in the Chamber of Deputies because of his fear of that seeks to change the Constitution.
At the start of the process, Lorenzo Córdova called on the political and social actors to respect the rules of the democratic game, the counting times and the results, and urged the voters to freely exercise the vote.
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"Rest assured that today there will be voting ranges issued punctually"
for 15 of the 32 governorates of the country and the Chamber of Deputies, Córdova said in a statement, and specified that the ranges will be given at 11:00 pm ET. Center, based on the quick counts that the electoral authorities will carry out.
The elections are the first massive public event since the coronavirus pandemic hit the country more than a year ago, although the numbers of infections have fallen and Mexico has vaccinated a quarter of adults.
The
estimated 350,000 deaths in the pandemic
- some 230,000 of them confirmed with tests - do not appear to have played a large role in the election campaign, although they could weigh on the minds of voters.
With information from Efe, The Associated Press, Milenio, Animal Político, El Universal and El Financiero.