Colombia elections

The second majority headed by businessman Rodolfo Hernández and Marelen Castillo received 5953209 votes 2815. He won the lefts primary-like interparty consultation in March with more votes than any candidate in any of the three competitions.

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1 day agoAbout 216 million of the 39 million eligible voters cast a ballot Sunday.

. In 2018 he lost the presidential runoff to Ivan Duque. Gustavo Petro gestures as he speaks during a presidential debate at the headquarters of El Tiempo newspaper in Bogota on May 23 2022. On May 29 Colombia will hold its first round of voting to choose the successor to President Ivan Duque who cant run for reelection due to term limits.

Petro said he would do so as he does not want to be an eternal ca. A person prepares to vote during the presidential runoff election at a polling station set up at the Simon Bolivar international bridge in Cucuta Colombia ahead of. 2 days agoIf 62-year-old former guerrilla Gustavo Petro wins on June 19 he will be Colombias first leftist leader.

Petro a current senator and previous mayor of Bogota won 508 of votes figures from the national registry office showed while Hernandez trailed by 797973 votes tallying 469. Petro won the first round with just. Petro who captured 404 percent of the vote in the first round was the runner-up in the 2018 presidential runoff.

1 day agoWe are writing a new history for Colombia Latin America and the world declared Gustavo Petro the winner of Colombias presidential election in. Gustavo Petro Makes History in Presidential Victory A former rebel and longtime legislator won Colombias presidential. It is a presidential election unlike.

Petro promised in September 2021 that he would retire from politics should his campaign for the presidency be unsuccessful. AP PhotoFernando Vergara AP. 1 day agoA woman cleans the capitals main voting center in preparation of the presidential runoff election in Bogota Colombia Friday June 17 2022.

Previous presidents of Colombia studied in the US. As we know last May 29th in the first round of the presidential elections the candidates of the Historical Pact Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez obtained the highest number of votes with 8527768 votes 4032. The leftist ex-mayor of Bogotá who spent time as a guerrilla fighter.

The election result could upend the USs relationship with Colombia whose influence in the region has been waning for some time. BOGOTÁ ColombiaFor decades Colombia elected establishment politicians who hewed to the center-right and helped make the country the USs closest ally in the region. Ahead of the May 29 first-round vote the frontrunner is Gustavo Petro a former leftist guerilla who has served as mayor of Bogotá and is serving as senator.

Abstentionism has been above 40 in every presidential election since 1990. 2 days agoColombians head to the polls on Sunday for a high-stakes election between two populist presidential candidates promising to fundamentally transform the country. Colombians are calling it the most consequential election in decades.

On Sunday Latin Americas third largest nation heads to the polls to choose a. In the May 29 first-round election Colombians dealt a major blow to the political establishment putting Gustavo Petro into a runoff against Rodolfo Hernández. BOGOTA June 14 Reuters - Colombias police are on maximum alert after detecting plans by radical groups to reject the results of a second presidential election vote on Sunday and commit violence.

That era has come to a. The economist former guerrilla and former mayor of Bogotá Gustavo Petro previously a candidate in the 2010 and 2018 Colombian presidential elections has maintained a lead in most opinion polls and could become the first president of Colombia from a left-wing coalition. 1 day agoLeftist Gustavo Petro a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change will be Colombias next president after beating construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez in an election on Sunday.

1 day agoAbout 216 million of the 39 million eligible voters cast a ballot Sunday. Petro a current senator and previous mayor of Bogota won 508 of votes figures from the national registry office. Bogota CNN Colombias presidential election appears destined.

1 day agoThe victory of Gustavo Petro in Colombias presidential election has continued a leftward swing in Latin America and was quickly praised. The preliminary results announced by the National Registry are unofficial and could be revised by the National Electoral Council after a formal scrutiny of the votes in the coming week. Abstentionism has been above 40 in every presidential election since 1990.

2 days agoColombia Election. 2 days agoHernández shocked Colombia when he made it to Sundays runoff after ousting a number of career politicians from the race in the first round of voting on 29 May. Petro took the most votes then some.

1 day agoProgressive Senator Gustavo Petro won Colombias presidential elections according to the quick vote count by the National Registry.

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