Sunday’s gubernatorial election in Estado de Mexico (Edomex) finally ended the long reign of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), which had governed Mexico’s most populous state ever since the party’s founding in 1929.
The victor upsetting the applecart was Delfina Gómez Álvarez, a 60-year-old former teacher who only entered the political arena a decade ago when she ran for mayor of her home town of Tecoxco, 15 miles northeast of Mexico City. Representing the “Juntos Hacemos Historia” coalition of the Movimiento Regeneración Nacional (Morena) Partido del Trabajo (PT) and Partido Verde Ecologista (PVEM), Gómez garnered just over 54 percent of the vote, well ahead of Alejandra del Moral Vela, the candidate from the “Va por México” alliance, comprised of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) and Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD).
The victory was perhaps sweetest for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who considers Gómez one of his closest and most loyal collaborators. (He appointed her his education minister in February 2021.)
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