Editing Vicente Fox (section)

====Election results====
[[File:Gerhard Schroeder Vicente Fox.jpg|thumb|German Chancellor [[Gerhard Schröder]] with Fox in [[Los Pinos]], May 2004]]
On 2 July 2000, his 58th birthday, Fox won the presidential election with 43% (15,989,636 votes) of the popular vote, followed by the [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] (PRI) candidate [[Francisco Labastida]] with 36% (13,579,718 votes), and [[Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas]] of the [[Party of the Democratic Revolution]] (PRD) with 17% (6,256,780 votes). Fox declared victory that same night, a victory that was ratified by then-President Zedillo. After the final results were announced, President-elect Fox addressed thousands of supporters and celebrated his victory with them at the [[Angel of Independence]] monument in [[Mexico City]]. His opponents conceded the election later that night.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

After securing the election, Fox received substantial media coverage, as well as numerous congratulatory messages and phone calls from world leaders, including then-President of the United States [[Bill Clinton]]. He took office on 1 December 2000, the first time since 1917 that an opposition candidate had taken power from the long-reigning [[Institutional Revolutionary Party]] (PRI).<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pastor|first1=Manuel|last2=Wise|first2=Carol|year=2005|title=The Lost Sexenio: Vicente Fox and the New Politics of Economic Reform in Mexico|journal=Latin American Politics and Society|volume=47|issue=4|pages=135–160|issn=1531-426X|jstor=4490436|doi=10.1111/j.1548-2456.2005.tb00331.x|s2cid=232390455}}</ref>