Leftist Gustavo Petro surpassed populist Rodolfo Hernández this Sunday in the second round of the presidential election by 700,000 votes.
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The left took a historic victory this Sunday in the second round of Colombia’s presidential elections and will rule the country for the first time. Leftist Gustavo Petro He has surpassed the populist Rodolfo Hernández by 700,601 votes.with 100% of the tables counted.
Petro, of the coalition of the Historic Pact, has the 50.44% of the votesand Hernández, of the League of Governors Anti-Corruption Movement, 47.31%.
Participation was one of the highest registered in the countrysince it has been 58.09%, making the abstinence rate the lowest in this century, at 41.91%. A total of 39,002,239 Colombians registered at the polls were called to vote in this second presidential round and 22,658,694 of them went to the polls.
In his maiden speech after winning this Sunday’s election, the president-elect has promised real change “Here comes a real change, a real change, in this we are compromising existence, life itself, we are not going to betray that electorate that what they have shouted to the country, what exactly they have shouted at history that changes today Colombia, Colombia is another,” he said.
On the other hand, he has indicated that he will build a government based on “peace and social and environmental justice.” Colombia’s new president has emphasized that peace is his main goal and has proposed ‘a major national agreement’ to that effect. “The voters of Rodolfo Hernández are welcome in this government,” Petro emphasized, adding: “We are not going to use power to destroy the adversary.”
Vice-President Elected Celebrates First “Government of Nobody”
Colombia’s elected Vice-President Francia Márquez, the first woman of African descent to hold office, has celebrated that the country will have the first “people’s government of the no one” in its history, “an important step to reconcile the nation .”
“We go brothers and sisters to reconcile this nation, we go resolutely for peace, without fear, with love and joy, we go for dignity, for social justice,” Márquez invited from the party stage in Bogotá.
This is for our grandmothers and grandfathers, women, youth, LGTBIQ+ people, indigenous people, farmers, workers, victims, my black people, those who resist and those who are no longer… All over Colombia. Today we start writing a new story!
– Francia Marquez Mina (@FranciaMarquezM) June 19, 2022
The populist candidate, Rodolfo Hernández, has accepted his defeat in the second round of Colombia’s presidential election and wanted the winner to know how to lead the country.
The outgoing president, Iván Duque, Gustavo Petro congratulated on his election victory that will make him his successor. “I called Gustavo Petro to congratulate him as President-elect of the Colombians. We have agreed to meet in the coming days to begin a harmonious, institutional and transparent transition,” Duque wrote on his Twitter account.
Gustavo Petroc He will take office on August 7.
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