SANTIAGO, July 2 (Xinhua) -- A UN official said Monday that her agency is willing to collaborate with Mexico's new authorities elected in Sunday's presidential election.
"We reaffirm ECLAC's willingness to collaborate with the newly-elected authorities, as we do with all regional governments, to spur sustainable development centered on equality," Alicia Barcena, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), said in a statement.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador won the presidency in the election and his left-of-center National Regeneration Movement (Morena) clinched a majority in the congress.
Barcena congratulated Lopez Obrador and praised his main rivals Ricardo Anaya and Jose Antonio Meade, who came in second and third respectively, for their prompt acknowledgement of the election results.
Barcena said Lopez Obrador represented a political sea change for Latin America's second largest economy, which has been governed by the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) for most of the past century.
The ECLAC chief said she believed "the markets have already internalized the election results," and that "Mexico has the macroeconomic strengths to bolster economic stability through the rest of 2018 amid an uncertain international setting."
Mexico's National Electoral Institute on Sunday evening announced the results of a preliminary unofficial "rapid count" based on a sample of 5 percent of polling stations nationwide.
According to the figures, Lopez Obrador won a decisive victory by securing 53 to 53.8 percent of the votes.
