REACTION: Sheinbaum’s Unexpectedly Big Landslide in Mexico
The ruling Morena party dominated the elections, securing Mexico City, new governorships and likely supermajorities in Congress.
Update and correction appended below. Claudia Sheinbaum won the presidency in a vote that was widely seen as a referendum on her mentor, outgoing President Andres Manuel López Obrador, whose left-leaning policies have proven popular even as his security policy failed to curb drug-related killings. Sheinbaum, 61, received almost 59% of the votes, the highest vote percentage in the nation's democratic history. She will take office on October 1. The ruling Morena party appears on track to gain supermajorities both houses of Congress, according to the early official figures. It also won...
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