Mexico ruling party wins lower house super-majority but falls short in Senate

FILE PHOTO: MORENA's president Mario Delgado and General Coordinator of the presidential candidate of the ruling MORENA party Claudia Sheinbaum's campaign, speaks onstage after polls closed in the general elections, in Mexico City, Mexico June 2, 2024. REUTERS/Raquel Cunha/File Photo

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexico's ruling Morena party and its allies have won a super-majority in the lower house of Congress but not the Senate, the party's president said on Sunday, falling just short of the two-thirds majority needed in both houses to change the constitution.

Preliminary results from the June 2 vote, which elected Claudia Sheinbaum as Mexico's first woman president in a landslide, had showed her party, Morena, and its allies coming close but missing out on the two-thirds majority.