Mexico has elected left-wing populist, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, as its new president. Lopez emerged winner of the elections with at least 53 per cent of the vote casts according to the electoral authority.

A projection based on a vote count in 7,800 representative polling stations confirms the victory of Lopez Obrador, National Electoral Institute President Lorenzo Cordova said.

Mr Obrador took between 53 and 53.8 per cent of the vote.

Conservative-centrist Ricardo Anaya received up to 22.8 per cent, while Jose Antonio Meade from outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) had up to 16.3 per cent.

The results make Mr Obrador Mexico’s first presidential candidate to receive more than 50 per cent of the vote since the PRI lost its dominant position in the last century.

“The revolution of consciences has triumphed,” the winner told tens of thousands of jubilant supporters who had gathered on Mexico City’s central Zocalo Square.

“I shall not let you down. You shall not be disappointed,” he vowed while crowds waved flags of his Morena party and chanted “President! President!”.

source:  http://www.nigerianmonitor.com/mexico-elects-lopez-obrador-as-its-new-president/