Colombian presidential elections

The latest polls predict a statistical tie between two candidates who embody different ideologies but still promise change. The leftist ex-mayor of Bogotá who spent time as a guerrilla fighter.

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BOGOTÁ Colombia The final round of Colombias presidential election is scheduled for Sunday June 19 and the clear winner is still difficult to determine.

. Gutiérrez 47 won Team Colombias nomination with 22 million ballotsfaring better than the tight race some pre-election polls had forecast. 1 day agoFormer guerrilla member Gustavo Petro won Colombias presidential election on Sunday to become the countrys first leftist head of state in a tight race marked by voters strong desire for change. 14 hours agoGustavo Petro speaking at a rally on June 19.

Petro who captured 404 percent of the vote in the first round was the runner-up in the 2018 presidential runoff. Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 29 May 2022. 2 days agoColombias presidential election is down to the wire with polls showing both candidates in a near statistical tie.

The 40-year-old Black feminist and single-mother garnered the third-most. 1 day agoLeftist presidential candidate Gustavo Petro casts a vote at a polling station in Bogota Colombia on Sunday. Ivan ValenciaAP BOGOTÁ Colombia Colombians headed to the polls on Sunday.

19 hours agoW e are writing a new history for Colombia Latin America and the world declared Gustavo Petro the winner of Colombias presidential. Colombia held the first round of its presidential elections on May 29th and it is hard to overstate just how surprised most analysts were by the results. BOGOTÁ Colombia In a shock to a.

The last four years in Colombia have been difficult. 1 day agoAbstentionism has been above 40 in every presidential election since 1990. Colombias highly anticipated presidential elections on Sunday resulted in victory for two anti-establishment candidates.

House candidate touts record says Spanberger is worst kind of politician ahead of Virginia GOP primary. Supporters of Colombian left-wing presidential candidate Gustavo Petro celebrate after the presidential runoff election. 1 day agoA voter marks his ballot during a presidential runoff election in Bucaramanga Colombia Sunday June 19 2022.

If leftist candidate Gustavo Petro wins he will be the first left-wing president. BOGOTA Colombia Leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro won Colombias presidential runoff election Sunday over a real estate millionaire ushering in a new era of politics in the South American. Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández receives a warm welcome at the National Congress of Oil Palm Growers in Bucaramanga Colombia on June 3.

The New York. A civil engineer by training Gutiérrez first served on the Medellín city council from 2004 to 2011 before narrowly edging out Democratic Centers candidate to win the citys mayoral. Team Colombia We Believe Colombia.

Colombian left-wing presidential candidate Gustavo Petro of the Historic Pact coalition speaks after casting his vote at a polling station next to his wife Veronica Alcocer and daughter during. 1 day agoGustavo Petro a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement has won Colombias presidency. Bogota CNN Colombias presidential election appears destined for a runoff after preliminary results on Sunday showed no candidate had garnered over 50 of.

Luisa GonzalezReuters Leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro wins narrow victory in. Incumbent president Iván Duque was ineligible for a second term. He will become the countrys first left-wing president and has vowed to bring about profound social.

CNN Gustavo Petros victory in Colombias presidential elections on Sunday opens a new page in the history of the countrys relations with the US. 1 day agoA former rebel and longtime legislator won Colombias presidential election on Sunday galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative leaders. 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 the weekends election.

For generations Colombia has been dominated by a small political establishment that ranges from the center right to the hard right. Unlike other countries in the Latin America Colombia has never elected a President. A supporter of Colombian left-wing presidential candidate Gustavo Petro pastes a banner before a rally at the Fontibon neighborhood in Bogota on June 12 2022.

As none of the presidential nominees obtained at least 50 of the votes a runoff is scheduled to be held on 19 June 2022 between the top two candidates Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernández Suárez. 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. Petros running mate vice-presidential candidate Francia Marquez has sent shockwaves through Colombias political scene.

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