Delfina Gómezl: Defrauding people would be death for me 3:01

(CNN Spanish) -- Delfina Gómez, candidate of a coalition of parties led by Morena, founded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, is the virtual winner of the election for the governorship of the State of Mexico. Thus, Gomez breaks the streak of 94 years of governments headed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party, PRI.

The most recent estimates published by the INE place in first place the candidate Delfina Gómez, for the coalition Together we make history in the State of Mexico (PVEM, PT and MORENA), with more than 50% of the votes.

Del Moral acknowledged Gomez's triumph, near midnight this Sunday: "I congratulate the people of Mexico who have expressed their will very clearly at the polls. I greet the teacher Delfina Gómez Álvarez who will be the next governor of the State of Mexico and I wish her every success, for the good of the families of the State of Mexico. In a democracy, I have always said, to win you have to know how to lose. And I'm a Democrat," she said.

Delfina Gómez, meanwhile, celebrated her triumph: "Being the first woman to govern this state is a reason to celebrate. But being the first governor of Morena in the State of Mexico, that is great news for our people. This conscious people... We defeated neglect and corruption."

Delfina Gómez career

Delfina Gómez, born in the State of Mexico, is known as 'the teacher', because she studied for it working in several schools before venturing into politics with the National Regeneration Movement, Morena. In 2013 she was elected municipal president of Texcoco, a position she held until 2015.

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Later she was a federal deputy, senator and Secretary of Education from February 2021 to August 2022, when she left office to work for this candidacy.

It is the second time that Delfina Gómez sought to be governor.

The first time was in 2017, where, according to figures from the Electoral Institute of the State of Mexico, he lost by a difference of 2.87% of the votes against his main contender, the PRI and current governor, Alfredo del Mazo. This time he says he feels a difference from the previous campaign.

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As far as we are concerned, (we are) stronger as a party. With what is part of the work Green Party obviously strengthens us, but also continue to add more leaders and more representatives of other parties to this great project, because it is a state project, "he said during the campaign.

In that project, if the result is confirmed, he already knows what he would do on his first day in office.

"The first is to lower the salaries of top-level officials like him, from the governor to the secretaries of government and those at the bottom, the directors. I think that would be the first one, because it's a way to compensate the people for all the confidence they have," he told CNN.

And if he would regret something, surely, it is not fulfilling what he promised to the 125 municipalities that make up the State of Mexico and that he has visited during his campaign.

"Imagine if I failed these people.... It's all they have. (...) That you defraud them would be death to me, and not politics without a death of conscience."

If her victory in these elections is confirmed, Delfina Gómez would be the first woman to occupy the position of governor of that state and the first to achieve political alternation in one of the federative entities considered as bastions of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.