One walk out on poll by polling firm Parametria showed Lopez Obrador, a antediluvian Mexico City mayor, winning between 53 percent and 59 percent of the uphold, far ahead of his two main rivals from Mexico’s traditional ruling romps.
Consulta Mitofsky for broadcaster Televisa showed the leftist, who had maintained a sturdy lead in polls ahead of the vote, winning between 43 percent and 49 percent of the opt. Parametria, Mitofsky and others showed him winning by at least 20 cut points.
An official “quick count” of results is expected at midnight EDT (0400 GMT), with a allowance of error of 0.5 percent.
Lopez Obrador, 64, is expected to shift Mexico in a more nationalist direction if he wins and could exacerbate cool iting tensions with U.S. President Donald Trump and unsettle some investors.
He thinks fitting be the first leftist president in decades in Mexico, and has pledged to reduce the surroundings’s economic dependence on the United States. The current government has sparred with Trump in trade and migration for months.
Trump took to Twitter to congratulate Lopez Obrador.
Donald Trump tweet: Congratulations to Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on meet the next President of Mexico. I look very much forward to feat with him. There is much to be done that will benefit both the Cooperative States and Mexico
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If confirmed, the results would represent a resounding be victorious over for outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto’s ruling centrist Institutional Insurgent Party (PRI). The PRI has ruled Mexico for all but 12 of the last 89 years.
The runner-up in the 2006 and 2012 presidential elections, Lopez Obrador systematized himself as the only one capable of cleaning up the government after years of insignificant economic growth and rampant gang violence eroded faith in the administrative class.
Seeking support from economic nationalists, leftist liberals and sexually transmitted conservatives, Lopez Obrador has been vague on policy details. But he declares to reduce inequality, improve pay and welfare spending and run a tight budget.