The flag bearer of the PAN and Movimiento Ciudadano beat his closest competitor by 1,136 votes…//
PROGRESO — During the electronic tally held in the port, the Municipal Electoral Council of Iepac confirmed that based on the preliminary results the winner of the Mayoral contest July 1 was Julián Zacarías Curi.
The flag bearer of the PAN and Movimiento Ciudadano had a margin in his favor of 1,136 votes with respect to his closest competitor, María María del Carmen Ordaz Martínez, who won a total of 9,890 votes.
As for the rest of the candidates, Raúl Alvarado Naal of the Morena-PT-PES coalition achieved a total of 3,214 votes and Magaly Alférez only obtained 178 votes in favor.
In this way, the results of the preliminary count were as follows: PAN (10,590), PRI (9,338), PRD (178), PVEM (113), MC (198), PANAL (142), MORENA (2,173), PES ( 119).
The ballots where people marked more than one option but that also account for their contention in coalition were PRI-PVEM-Panal (118), PRI-PVEM (100), PAN and MC (238), PRI-Panal (72), PVEM-Panal (7), PT-Morena-PES (83), PT-Morena (52), Morena-PES (32).
The campaign coordinator of the winner Zacarías Curi confirmed that the celebration of his triumph would be delayed several days in an orderly and respectful way to the adversaries, after he received his confirmation of the majority on the part of the electoral authority at the municipal level.
Text and photo: José Luis Chavarría
