Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum will wait until all votes are finalized in the US election before she acknowledges Donald Trump as the winner.
Sheinbaum, who took office last month, told reporters at her daily press briefing in the National Palace in Mexico City Wednesday that she preferred to wait until several states completed the vote count.
‘There is news that President Trump won, but we are going to wait, anyway, until today when some states finish counting and we can give the official announcement,’ Sheinbaum said.
‘We will still wait until today to see how the remaining states progress, and also the position of both candidates, President Trump has already expressed himself, but it is prudent to wait,’ she added.
Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that she is waiting for all votes to be counted in the presidential election before she officially recognizes Donald Trump as the winner
Trump speaks during an election night event at the West Palm Beach Convention Center in West Palm Beach, Florida
Trump secured a resounding victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and a return to the White House.
The president-elect holds a lead over Harris in Alaska, Arizona and Maine, where election officials are still counting votes.
Trump’s win stoked fears in Mexico and sent its local currency tumbling.
At one point on Wednesday, the peso was trading 20.80 per dollar, a level not seen since August 2022. The peso peaked at 20.26 on Tuesday.
Trump secured a resounding victory over Vice President Kamala Harris and a return to the White House
Former President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka (left), and then Mexico City Mayor-elect Claudia Sheinbaum are seen together at the presidential inauguration of Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico City on December 1, 2018
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele celebrated Donald Trump’s victory as the Republican candidate’s lead over Vice President Kamala Harris was growing
Sheinbaum soothed any existing fears by telling residents and business owners that they had no cause to be worried.
‘Mexico always moves forward, we are a free, independent, sovereign country and there will be a good relationship with the United States, I am convinced of that,’ she said.
While Sheinbaum waited for the remaining votes to be counted, some of her counterparts in Latin American were already congratulating him.
‘There’s a smell of a new president in the US and it’s @realDonaldTrump,’ El Salvador President Nayib Bukele wrote on X on Thursday night as Trump began to sweep the battleground states.
When it was clear that Harris had no chance of overcoming Trump’s sizable lead, Bukele was back on X celebrating Trump.
‘Congratulations to the President-Elect of the United States of America, @realDonaldTrump,’ he wrote while placing an emoji of the United States flag. ‘May God bless and guide you.’
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro championed Trump’s victory with a long rant Wednesday morning, alluding to Trump’s claims of voter fraud four years ago.
‘Today, we witness the resurgence of a true warrior. A man who, even after facing a brutal electoral process in 2020 and an unjustifiable judicial persecution, has risen again, as few in history have managed to do,’ he wrote on X.
‘Against all opposition from globalists and the deep state, @realdonaldtrump will return to the Presidency of the United States of America to complete his mission: restore the greatness of his nation, protect the interests of his people, and work toward a world that is freer, more peaceful, and more secure.
‘Congratulations, my friend, on this epic victory that marks not only your return to the White House but also the triumph of the people’s will over the arrogant designs of an elite who disdain our values, beliefs, and traditions.’