According to a projection of the final result of the country's electoral authority, called "quick account", the next president must close the poll with 53% to 53.8%. The polls showed Obrador's victory with about 45% of the votes. Shortly after the revelation, the rivals in the dispute had already acknowledged defeat.

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– July 2, 2018

About 1h, with just over 2% of the polls cleaned up, Obrador had 47.18% The second, Ricardo Anaya Cortés, had 27.29% of the electoral preference, followed by the Governor Antonio Meade, with 16.61%.

US President Donald Trump congratulated Obrador for a message on his Twitter account. "Congratulations to Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador for being the next President of Mexico, I am very much looking forward to working with him, there is a lot to do for him acquirable in both the US and Mexico, "he tweeted.

Obrador is Mexico's first left-wing president for decades, breaking the control of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and its conservative opponents.

In addition to the presidential election, nearly 89 million Mexicans went to fetch governors, mayors and local and federal MPs from the more than 18,000 positions in dispute. The electoral sections were opened at 9 am and closed at 8 pm, at the time of Brasília.

López Obrador is a fervent critic of the ruling elite who is committed to eradicating corruption in the country and pacifying the country's violence.

Combining election promises with a panorama of Mexico's political history, López Obrador promised in a final campaign event a "radical" government that will end the privileges, eradicate impunity and fulfill the country of "moral authority".

"The country will be clean," said López Obrador at Estadio Azteca, Mexico's largest football stadium, with nearly 87,000 seats. "The main problem in Mexico is corruption, the main cause of economic inequality, corruption has unleashed insecurity," said the candidate to applause.

The challenges of López Obrador will be gigantic: in addition to tackling corruption, he must keep his promise to "put in his place" US President Donald Trump, who has threatened to break the deadlock. free trade agreement with Mexico. Latin American country is not hard enough with illegal immigration.

His economic team told investors that he was not a radical leftist and that he would fight to preserve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a group also formed by the United States and Canada and that US President Donald Trump has threatened protectionist measures.

Carlos Urzua, chosen by López Obrador to head the Ministry of Finance, said that he has met more than 65 investment funds, telling them that the candidate is committed to giving the central bank the Autonomy, free monetary flotation, free trade and keep a check on spending.

Mexico closed its election campaign as the "most violent" record of recent years, according to a report by Etellekt. Since September, the date of the beginning of the pre-campaign, 124 political figures have been killed, including 29 pre-candidates and 18 candidates, according to the balance sheet of the company and local vehicles, quoted by AFP.

Several candidates consulted by the agency admitted to campaigning in fear and some of them decided to engage security.