Mexican president’s party wins State of Mexico governor elections

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s party won the gubernatorial elections held in the State of Mexico, the country’s most populous, on Sunday.

The National Regeneration Movement (Morena) toppled the once-powerful Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which lost control of the state – home to 17 million inhabitants -, for the first time in 94 years.

With 66% of returns in from polling stations, Delfina Gomez, candidate for Morena, had 53% of the vote. Her rival, Alejandra del Moral, a PRI politician heading a coalition of opposition parties, had 44%.

Gomez, who narrowly lost the previous state election, will be the State of Mexico’s first female governor.

In a separate gubernatorial vote in the northern border state of Coahuila, the PRI won the election.

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