Photo credit: Reuters- Lopez Obrador has won the vote by a large margin, according to exit polls.
By Staff ~ Reuters ~ July 1, 2018
Mexican presidential candidate Ricardo Anaya accepted his election defeat by anti-establishment Leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, joining the frontrunner’s other main rival in congratulating him on his win.
Lopez Obrador has won the vote by a large margin, according to exit polls, in a shift to the Left for Latin America’s second-largest economy and a major break with the two parties that have governed Mexico for nearly a century, the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) and conservative National Action Party (PAN).
Anaya, who ran for a PAN-led coalition, said yesterday that he had called Lopez Obrador to concede. “I recognize his victory and express my congratulations, and I wish him the greatest of success, for the good of Mexico,” he told supporters.
Source: Staff ~ Reuters
