Morena: virtual winner of the Constituent Assembly in Mexico City

The National Regeneration Movement (Morena) was emerging as the winning party in the election of the 60 members of the Constituent Assembly.

With 89% of the votes counted, the National Electoral Institute (INE) said the party founded by Andrés Manuel López Obrador got 583,569 votes.

The second place was for the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD), with 512,570 votes, while the National Action Party (PAN) got 181,892 votes and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), 136,992 votes.

With these figures, none of the 21 independent candidates would make it to the Constituent Assembly. Ismael Figueroa, firefighters union leader, won the most votes among independents.

Morena could get at least 21 seats. Some of the members of the Constituent Assembly would be Irma Sandoval, Bernardo Bátiz, Bertha Luján, Bruno Bichir, Clara Brugada, Carlos Payán, Jaime Cárdenas, Patricia Jiménez, Manuel Mardonio, Javier Quijano, Héctor Bonilla and Elvira Daniel Kabbaz, among others.

The PRD could get least 18 seats. The list of candidates includes Katia D'Artigues, Enrique Provencio, Marcela Lagarde, Miguel Ángel Velázquez, Guadalupe Muñoz, Humberto Lozano, Ifigenia Martínez, Jesús Ortega, Manuel Oropeza, Lolkin Castañeda and Julio César Moreno, among others.

The PAN could get at least six seats for Santiago Creel, Margarita Saldaña, Mauricio Tabe and Kenia López, among others.

The PRI would have five seats and its candidates include Irma Cué, Carlos Humberto Aceves y Del Olmo, Cynthia Iliana López Castro, José Eduardo Escobedo and María Fernanda Bayardo Salim.

Nueva Alianza could have one seat for Gabriel Quadri, while the Citizens Movement could also have one seat for Esthela Damián. The Social Encounter Party (PES), with 64,727 votes, would have two seats, one of them for Andrés Millán while the Green Party would also have one seat for Alejandro Bustos. The rest of the seats will be assigned proportionally before August 23.

Abstentionism reached 72% and Morena and the PRD exchanged accusations of vote-buying and coercion.