By now national and international media besides the IFE's preliminary counting has awarded the election's victory to Enrique Peña Nieto, representative of the Alliance for Mexico, the union celebrated between the Institutional Revolutionary Party and the Mexican Green Ecologist Party.
At this moment the PREP has Enrique Peña Nieto with 38.05% (18',331,610 votes), Andrés Manuel López Obrador with 31.71% (15'276,030 votes), Josefina Vázquez Mota with 25.44% (12'256,638 votes) and Gabriel Quadri 2.30% (1'110,949 votes). Over 95% of voting ballots have been processed.
Over the last campaigning week a lot of people saw it coming, even more considering the speeches of other presidential candidates and the sea of people that went to all the closures of election campaigns.
Enrique Peña Nieto was shaping up as the winner.
There is an alternate scenario, those who do not accept the outcome and are inclined to think that this is but an imposition by the groups in power. One look at the recurring topics in social networks and the outlook is not the best, at least not in my circle. But there are many variables to consider, the most important one is that a country does not change because of one person, but for the totality of its people.
For those who woke up upset by the results it would be good to remember that despite which candidate had won, change starts with the actions of each individual and that the difference is the difficulty of the path.
In more than one occasion we have seen comments and articles talking about the "return of the PRI to the power", of going backwards 70 years, of being more of the same.
But as some experts have pointed out before, whoever occupies the Office has a big challenge ahead, it is impossible to govern only for those who elected them and, in the case of Enrique Peña Nieto, 37.97% of the voters chose him, that is not even half of the voting registration list. He will also have to work with the National Congress that is formed by representatives of all of the political parties and only around 36% of them agree with the elected president for belonging to the same political party.
With few voting ballots processed, last night he emitted a message and amongst the phrases that stood out he made reference to uniting the country, his words are clear, he is a President for all and he is in for a colossal task. For those who speak of a regression, they should also observe that the conditions are different. The public in general has tools that years ago didn't exist, alternate media, internet, a political awakening with civic movements like "Yo soy 132" ("I am 132") that became a new force and it doesn't end with the electing campaign.
The citizens opted for taking pictures of the sheets that were put up in the places where voting booths were installed, this data is being gathered in some websites and the results do not match the official ones; there is even a civic PREP.
The IFE stated that the actual counting begins until July 04 and during that time, some people still hold to the idea that the scale tips to one of the other presidential candidates. It has been commented that the electing process has had no problems even when the UN has received more than 1,300 reports over irregularities which have transformed into investigations by the Attorney's Office Specialized in Dealing with Electoral Offenses (FEPADE in Spanish).
Enrique Peña Nieto will act as the President of Mexico and the citizens, supporters or not, will have the responsibility of working for the development of a country; that will be the new revolution.
brenda.colon@sandiegored.com
Original Text : Brenda Colón
Translation : Karen Balderas Licea
