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The left-wing populist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was on the verge of winning a historic presidential victory Sunday night as an exit poll gave him an overwhelming lead and his two leading rivals conceded defeat.
Lopez Obrador, who promised to transform Mexico and oust the "mafia of power" that governs the country, had 16 to 26 points ahead of his closest rival, conservative Ricardo Anaya , and a bit more about Jose Antonio Meade of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party, according to the survey of consulting firm Consulta Mitofsky.
"The trend favors Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador … I recognize his triumph," said Anaya in a speech to supporters.
Minutes earlier Meade had also conceded, saying that "for the good of Mexico, I wish him the greatest success."
Election officials did not publish a voting statement.
Lopez Obrador, better known as AMLO, said that he would rule Mexico for the poor and fight rampant corruption.
"There is a lot of inequality, a lot of violence in this country," said Hugo Carlos, the voter of Lopez Obrador, 73 years old. "This situation needs to be changed".
Consulta Mitofsky's exit polls also predict clear wins for Lopez Obrador's Morena party allies in four of the eight state races on the ballot more for the head of government in Mexico City. The central state of Guanajuato was supposed to go to a Conservative National Action Party candidate.
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He promised to give scholarships or paid apprenticeships to young people and to increase child support for the elderly.
"I am concerned that some candidates are making proposals that are impossible, because they are very expensive to achieve," said Juan Carlos Limas, 26, who lives in Mexico City to vote for Ricardo Anaya. is currently second in the polls for a right-to-left coalition
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Sunday elections at all levels of government are the largest ever held in Mexico and have become a referendum on corruption, corruption and other tricks used to divert taxpayers' money to the pockets of the officials.
Many saw this election as Lopez Obrador's best chance at the presidency after 12 years of near-permanent campaigning with his anti-establishment message falling on receptive ears amid a widespread disillusionment with politicians.
"The corrupt regime is coming to an end," Lopez Obrador said in his latest election campaign on Wednesday. "We represent modernity forged from below."
Much of the popular anger was directed against the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) of President Enrique Pena Nieto, whose market-oriented economic reforms have not yet benefited many Mexicans and Meade has struggled during the campaign to escape popular rejection. .
Anaya tried to exploit the youth vote by focusing on technology and new ideas, but he divided his own conservative party to take his candidacy and it is unclear whether his new allies in the Left Revolutionary Party on the other end of the ideological spectrum.
Sunday was the first time that an independent candidate appeared on the ballot.
Jaime "El Bronco" Rodriguez was beaten to attract attention with a "handyman" campaign mounted on horseback and throwing political bombs as his proposal to cut off the hands of officials caught in the act. Without the big machinery of the party, it was a difficult battle.
This is also the first time that Mexicans living abroad can vote for secret ballot races like Senators. More than 181,000 ballots were received and the 97,000 that the National Electoral Institute had recovered on Friday morning were already double what they had achieved in 2012.
Casting his own vote, Pena Nieto promised to work with anyone who wins on the transition.
"The president of the republic and his government will be absolutely respectful and will support the authorities who are elected," Pena Nieto told reporters.
In the two presidential losses of Lopez Obrador, he alleged a fraud. In his first defeat – in the order of 0.56% against conservative Felipe Calderon in 2006 – his supporters staged protests of several months in Mexico City and he has been billed as "the legitimate president" .
His allies warned even before Sunday's presidential vote that it was better not to have a funny business.
However, the vote was generally peaceful, except for the usual complaints about some polling stations with volunteer staff who open late.
The head of the country's electoral institute, Lorenzo Cordova, said the vote was taking place "peacefully, without major incidents", and that only four of the 156,807 polling stations had not opened .
On Saturday, the Democratic Revolution party declared that four of its members had been killed in the state of Mexico City, in the west of Mexico, while they were trying to "get away from it. prevent potential parties from distributing goods by the ruling party.
The state government of Chihuahua, in the north of the country, reported that three people had been arrested in the border town of Ciudad Juarez for allegedly attempting to buy votes for a political party anonymous.
And in the state of Michoacan, polling stations in some villages were canceled after some locals said they did not want elections involving political parties, which they be careful. Some newsletters were stolen and burned in the city of Nahuatzen to prevent voting.
In the border town of Tijuana, in the northwest of the country, Jorge Serrano Martinez, a 29-year-old engineer, said that he had voted for Lopez Obrador because he wanted to "give it to him". opportunity for another political party to do different things ".
"He is not linked to any act of corruption and he has a history as a social fighter," Serrano said. "I think he's the least corrupt of all."
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