Gustavo Petro has 40% of the vote for Rodolfo Hernández (28%). Conservative Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez, meanwhile, is in third place (23%).
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will have to wait until June 19 to know the name of Colombia’s next president, which is that none of the candidates managed to get half plus one of the valid votes in this Sunday’s presidential election.
Candidate of the Left Coalition historical pact, Gustavo Petroc and the populist Rodolfo Hernández Colombia’s presidency will be contested in the second round
With the prediction almost 100%Petro, candidate of the Historic Pact, received 8,526,352 votes, which corresponds to 40.32%, followed by Hernández with 5,952,748 votes (28.15%). One of the main favorites, the conservative Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez, received 5,057,284 votes, which is 23.91%. After his defeat, Federico Gutiérrez has announced that he will vote for populist Rodolfo Hernández in the second round.
The first position of Gustavo Petroc it was to be expected as all the voting intention polls indicated it, but it has not been able to win in the first round. Petro, who was mayor of Bogotá from 2012 to 2015, assured this Sunday that his victory is the defeat of President Iván Duque and Uribismo’s political project and has promised “a real change.” “The political parties affiliated with Duque’s government, his political project, have been defeated in Colombia,” Petro announced in his speech after hearing the results, emphasizing that “a period is coming to an end, an era is coming to an end.” is coming to an end.”
The mechanic Rodolfo Hernandezfor his part, has celebrated his advancing to the second round, where he is confident he will win to ‘concrete the change that started today’.
This is the first time left to win election in Colombia and also the first in 20 years in which Uribismo, the right-wing movement founded by former president Álvaro Uribe, is not among the proposals to be chosen.
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Source: EITB
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