As the night went on, Mexico City’s main square, the Zócalo, gradually filled up with Scheinbaum’s supporters.
By nightfall, crowds had yet to gather in Mexico City’s main square, the Zocalo.
In the square The leading candidate, Claudia Scheinbaum, The crowd that had gathered to celebrate her victory was pumped by music blaring from the speakers rather than the hum of the crowd that had yet to arrive. Mexicans gathered in the plaza late into the night to celebrate. The ultimate victory of her political leader, the president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
Throughout the campaign, Scheinbaum He failed to generate the same enthusiasm as Lopez Obrador.Better known by his nickname “AMLO,” he has been having fun for a long time.
Supporters of Sheinbaum and Lopez Obrador’s parties began gathering in Mexico City’s Zocalo after the polls closed. Some street vendors were hawking effigies of Sheinbaum, but effigies of the populist president seemed to be selling faster.
Fernando Fernandez, a 28-year-old chef, and Ichel Robredo, a 28-year-old office worker, decided to buy two pairs of socks featuring Lopez Obrador’s portrait while they waited for the results.
“You’re voting for Claudia because of AMLO, because of your beliefs,” Fernandez said, but his biggest hope is that Scheinbaum “will fix what AMLO couldn’t: gas prices, crime and drug trafficking, which he didn’t fight even though he was in power.”
Robredo said Lopez Obrador’s best achievement was fighting corruption. “Yes, he has done that, but there is still a lot to be done. He has helped a lot of poor people through his programs in Mexico,” she added.
Robredo, 28, said she supports Lopez Obrador in his fight against corruption but hopes Scheinbaum will inject more expertise into the government.
She said if Sheinbaum wins, she hopes he will be able to govern “without the shadow of Lopez Obrador.”
