Andrés Manuel López Obrador
won Mexico’s Presidency in a landslide victory on Sunday, setting the stage for the most left-wing government in the country’s democratic history.
The 64-year-old former Mexico City mayor won with the widest margin in a presidential election since the 1980s, according to an official quick count that showed him taking more than half the vote—some 30 points ahead of his nearest rival.
Rivals Ricardo Anaya , a former head of the National Action Party ( PAN ), and ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) candidate José Antonio Meade , conceded defeat within minutes of exit polls.
On Twitter, public officials around the world have congratulated the leftist on his victory.
U.S. President Donald Trump
wrote:
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
, issued a statement on the results of the Mexican Presidential Election:
French President Emmanuel Macron
wrote in French: "My warmest congratulations to Andrés Manuel López Obrador for his beautiful democratic victory in Mexico."
UK Prime Minister Theresa May
congratulated the leftist as well:
Pedro Sanchéz
, Prime Minister of Spain ; Nicolás Maduro , President of Venezuela ; Sebastián Piñera , President of Chile ; Juan Manuel Santos , President of Colombia ; Juan Carlos Varela , President of Panama ; Lenín Moreno , President of Ecuador ; Juan Orlando H. , President of Honduras , and Jimmy Morales , President of Guatemala congratulated Andrés Manuel López Obrador following his overwhelming victory.