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Sheinbaum will be the first president of Mexico after winning the elections with a 30-point lead

The ruling Claudia Sheinbaum will be the first woman president of Mexico after obtaining between 58.3% and 60.7% of the votes in this Sunday’s elections, according to the quick count of the National Electoral Institute (INE), against a range of between 26.6% and 28.6% of her main rival, the opposition Xóchitl Gálvez.

Meanwhile, the candidate of the opposition Movimiento Ciudadano (MC), Jorge Álvarez Máynez, would receive between 9.9% and 10.8% of the votes, according to the president of the INE, Guadalupe Taddei, in a message on the national network.

The quick count of the INE is the first formal scrutiny of the autonomous body, which is based “on a representative statistical sample” of 5,651 voting centers with a confidence level of “at least 95%,” which allows “a robust projection” of who will win.

“I want to emphasize that these results are preliminary as well as those that are being disseminated through the Preliminary Electoral Results Program (PREP) and are subject to confirmation of the district calculations that will begin next Wednesday, June 5,” clarified the head of the INE.

In the absence of that confirmation, Claudia Sheinbaum thanked this Monday because “she will become the first female president of Mexico,” and projected a result that allows her to have the necessary majority to reform the Constitution in Congress.

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And it is that Sheinbaum not only received the keys to the National Palace, but his coalition of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), the Labor Party (PT) and the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM), won a two-thirds majority of the Chamber of Deputies and, possibly, the Senate.

“I want to thank millions of Mexicans who decided to vote for us on this historic day to move forward with the fourth transformation of public life in our country,” he said in his first public statements after learning about the results advanced by the INE.

“Above all, it is the recognition of the people of Mexico for our transformation project. I am also grateful because, for the first time in 200 years of the republic, I will become the first female president of Mexico,” said Sheinbaum.

Tens of thousands of supporters gathered in the Zocalo of Mexico City, the largest public square in the country, to celebrate the triumph of Sheinbaum, a celebration that the still president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has also joined.

The opposition presidential candidate, Xóchitl Gálvez, recognized on Monday the victory of the ruling Claudia Sheinbaum, although she said that she will demand results and solutions to the country’s great problems.

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“I want to emphasize that my recognition is accompanied by a firm demand for results and solutions to the great problems of the country and the indispensable respect for the constitution and democratic institutions,” said the representative of the Force and Heart Coalition for Mexico.

In her first message after the National Electoral Institute (INE) announced the results of the quick count, the former senator said that she recognized the result for her love for Mexico.

On the other hand, the ruling Clara Brugada would also win the head of the Government of Mexico City, by registering between 49% and 52.8% of the votes in the quick count of the Electoral Institute of the Mexican capital (IECDMX).

Brugada, of the coalition of the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), with the Labor Parties (PT), and the Green Ecologist of Mexico (PVEM), relegated to second place the opponent Santiago Taboada, who would add between 37.2 and 40.5%, according to the official estimate of the institute.

Meanwhile, the candidate of the also opposition Citizen Movement (MC), Salomón Chertorivski, reached between 6.9% and 9.7% of the votes.

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Mexico held this Sunday the largest election in its history with more than 98 million people called to renew more than 20,000 positions, including the presidency, the 500 deputies, the 128 senators and nine state governments.

The electoral campaign for these elections has also been the most violent in the history of Mexico, with at least 30 candidates killed.

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Pope Francis meets former Gaza hostages

Pope Francis met on Thursday at the Vatican with 16 Israelis who had been held hostage in Gaza for months by the Islamist group Hamas, according to the official Vatican news website.

The group consisted of ten women, four men, and two children, as reported by the same source. Several of the former hostages showed the Argentine pontiff banners or photos of their loved ones who remain in captivity.

Francis had previously met with the families of hostages in April this year and November 2023, but this was the first time he had met with individuals who had personally endured captivity.

Since the conflict between Israel and Hamas began, the pope has repeatedly called for the immediate release of Israeli hostages, while also condemning the suffering of the Palestinian population.

The war erupted on October 7, 2023, when Islamist militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,206 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures that include hostages who died in captivity.

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Of the kidnapped, 97 are still being held in Gaza, but the Israeli military estimates that 34 of them have died.

The military offensive launched by Israel in response has killed at least 43,736 people in the Gaza Strip, mostly civilians, according to data from the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-governed territory.

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Israeli airstrikes on Damascus kill 15 and injure 16, including women and children

Israeli forces carried out airstrikes on residential buildings in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and its surroundings on Thursday, resulting in at least 15 deaths and 16 injuries, according to Syria’s Ministry of Defense and state television.

The ministry stated that around 3:20 p.m. local time (12:20 GMT), the Israeli military launched an aerial attack from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeting several residential buildings in the Mazzeh neighborhood in western Damascus and the Qudsaya suburb to the northwest of the capital.

The airstrikes “resulted in the death of 15 people and injuries to 16 others, including women and children,” based on initial estimates, in addition to significant damage to private property and civilian buildings, the ministry added.

Meanwhile, state television reported Israeli airstrikes on three buildings in Mazzeh and another on a building in an educational complex located in a residential area of Qudsaya.

Following the strikes, loud explosions were heard throughout the city, and thick plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the targeted locations. Ambulances and emergency services rushed to the scene to attend to the victims.

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Drug trafficker dies after boat collision with Guardia Civil Vessel in Sanlúca

Three people were on the boat that collided with a Guardia Civil vessel around midnight at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, near the Andalusian city of Cádiz, a spokesperson for the Civil Guard reported.

Two officers sustained “contusions,” the spokesperson explained.

The drug traffickers managed to bring the boat to shore, where one of them was “abandoned” severely injured. The other two fled.

The Civil Guard officers attempted to resuscitate the victim before transporting him to Sanlúcar de Barrameda, but he ultimately died early in the morning.

The other two suspects took advantage of the officers’ absence while they were taking the victim and returned to set their boat on fire.

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The collision occurred very close to the site of another accident on September 1, where a drug trafficker died following a Guardia Civil pursuit.

The suspects’ boat traveled “400 meters” before crashing head-on and “at full speed” into the riverbank, where a hundred bundles of hashish were found.

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