The Institutional Revolutionary Party' s (PRI) candidate Enrique Pena Nieto has won Mexico' s presidential elections, preliminary results showed Sunday.
According to the quick count results of polling stations released by Mexico' s Federal Electoral Institute, Nieto has won 37.93 to 38.55 percent of vote, compared to his nearest rival Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, candidate of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD). with around 31 percent in second place, Xinhua reported.
Mexican outgoing President Felipe Calderon congratulated Nieto on being elected the next president of Mexico and promised that the current government would strengthen cooperations with Nieto's team.
Nieto's victory would mean a return to power for the PRI, which ruled Mexico for seven decades until its defeat in 2000 by the National Action Party's (PAN) Vicente Fox.
The Federal Electoral Institute (known by its Spanish acronym IFE) said after the polls closed that about 62 percent of Mexico's 80 million eligible voters participated in the elections to choose a president, six state governors, the mayor of the capital Mexico City, 500 deputies and 128 senators.
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