Newly-elected Mexico President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (left) and his wife Beatriz Gutierrez Muller cheering supporters after winning general elections in Mexico City on Monday — AFP MEXICO CITY, July 02 (Agencies): Anti-establishment leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won Mexico's presidential election on Sunday.
Three polling firms gave the former Mexico City mayor the win. Newspaper El Financiero's exit poll gave him 49 per cent of the vote to 27 per cent for conservative Ricardo Anaya and 18 per cent for ruling-party candidate Jose Antonio Meade.
Polling firms Mitofsky and the Strategic Communications Cabinet announced broadly similar results in their own exit polls. All had Lopez Obrador winning more than 40 per cent of the vote in the single-round race, well ahead of his rivals.
Meanwhile, Mexico's new president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said he would pursue friend and foe alike in a crackdown on corruption after voters handed him a powerful mandate for government with a landslide election victory on Sunday.
Lopez Obrador, the first leftist president since the end of one-party rule in 2000, won between 53 and 53.8 per cent of votes, according to a quick count by the electoral authority, more than double the total for his nearest rival.
That would be the biggest share of the vote since the early 1980s, and would give Lopez Obrador a strong platform both to address Mexico's internal problems and face external challenges like the threat of a trade war with the United States.
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