Mexico president's ruling party wins governorship of country's most populous state

[Judi Lynn]

By LISSETTE ROMERO Associated Press JUNE 4, 2023 — 11:40PM

NAUCALPAN, Mexico — A quick-count sampling of votes for governor of Mexico's most populous state suggested a victory late Sunday for the candidate from the governing party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which would end nearly a century of uninterrupted rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

Preliminary results indicated Delfina Gómez of the Morena party was likely to win between 52.1% and 54.2% of the ballots in the State of Mexico, compared with 43% to 45.2% for Alejandra del Moral, representing the opposition coalition, according to the National Electoral Institute.

The forecast was based on representative sampling of voting stations with at least 95% certainty. The outcome will not be final until all ballots were counted. Participation was between 48.7 and 50.2% of eligible state voters.

Del Moral conceded shortly after the preliminary forecast was announced.

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https://www.startribune.com/mexico-presidents-ruling-party-wins-governorship-of-countrys-most-populous-state/600280028/

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1. Mexico's rulers clinch opposition bastion ahead of presidency race

By Dave Graham
June 5, 20239:07 PM CDTUpdated 7 hours ago

MEXICO CITY, June 5 (Reuters) - Mexico's ruling party comfortably captured a major historic stronghold of the opposition in an election on Sunday, consolidating President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's hold on power ahead of the battle to succeed him next year.

Lopez Obrador's leftist National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) won the State of Mexico gubernatorial contest by more than 8 percentage points, according to preliminary results from the state's electoral institute.

The victory adds Mexico's most populous region to the 21 other states MORENA already controls, now more than two-thirds of the total. Another state is governed by a group allied to MORENA, giving the party a huge power base heading into the presidential elections due to be held on June 2, 2024.

Sunday's result also consigned Mexico's erstwhile political powerhouse, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), to a new nadir, marking another milestone in its replacement by MORENA as the country's establishment party.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-rulers-scoop-up-opposition-bastion-ahead-presidency-vote-2023-06-05/

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2. Morena party ends almost 100 years of PRI party rule in Mexico state, which also sees its first fem

Morena party ends almost 100 years of PRI party rule in Mexico state, which also sees its first female governor

The party formed by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador wrested political control in Mexico's most populous state and Delfina Gómez became its first female governor.


June 5, 2023, 10:35 AM CDT
By Pelayo Escandón and Ronny Rojas, Noticias Telemundo
Morena, the party formed by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, seized power for the first time in 94 years from Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in the state of Mexico, the most populous of the country's 32 states.

Morena candidate Delfina Gómez became the first woman elected governor of the state when she defeated Alejandra del Moral. Her victory ratified the dominance of the party formed by AMLO, as López Obrador is known, which already has wins in 23 other Mexican states.

“One hundred years of corruption have been long, but times change and the people united and won. The end of those 100 years of darkness and mistreatment has come, a new story begins in the state of Mexico,” Gómez said in a speech Sunday night.

Meanwhile, del Moral acknowledged in a message to the media that the preliminary results do not favor her, thereby tacitly acknowledging Gomez’s triumph.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/morena-party-first-female-governor-make-history-mexico-state-rcna87698