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Mexico presidential runner-up Anaya accepts defeat to leftist
MEXICO CITY, July 2, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Mexican presidential candidate
Ricardo Anaya accepted his election defeat Sunday 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 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.
BSS/AFP/MSY/0834 hrs