Colombian presidential elections

Bogota CNN Colombias presidential election appears destined for a runoff after preliminary results on Sunday showed no candidate had garnered over 50 of. BOGOTÁ Colombia In a shock to a.

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Colombias presidential election is down to the wire with polls showing both candidates in a near statistical tie.

. Gustavo Petro a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement has won Colombias presidency. There are two anti-establishment. Unlike other countries in the Latin America Colombia has never elected a President.

18 hours agoGustavo Petro speaking at a rally on June 19. 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 agoFormer rebel wins Colombias presidential election.

2 days agoA voter marks his ballot during a presidential runoff election in Bucaramanga Colombia Sunday June 19 2022. The leftist ex-mayor of Bogotá who spent time as a guerrilla fighter. 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.

1 day agoAbstentionism has been above 40 in every presidential election since 1990. 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. Chile Peru and Honduras elected leftist presidents in 2021 and in Brazil former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is leading the polls for this years presidential election.

Last updated May 17 2022 232 pm EST Colombias election could deliver the countrys first left-wing president an outcome with the potential to transform Bogotas approaches to economic. Presidential elections were held in Colombia on 29 May 2022. Editor June 17 2022.

Polls put the two candidatesformer rebel member leftist Gustavo Petro and the conservative outsider Rodolfo Hernándezneck-and-neck. 2022 Colombian presidential election. Supporters of Colombian left-wing presidential candidate Gustavo Petro celebrate after the presidential runoff election.

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. 1 As none of the presidential nominees obtained at least 50 of the votes a runoff was held on 19 June 2022 between the top two candidates Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernández Suárez. For generations Colombia has been dominated by a small political establishment that ranges from the center right to the hard right.

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. Luisa GonzalezReuters Leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro wins narrow victory in.

CNN Gustavo Petros victory in Colombias presidential elections on Sunday opens a new page in the history of the countrys relations with the US. 2 days agoColombians will go to the polls tomorrow in the final round of a presidential election thats had many surprises. 1 day agoW e are writing a new history for Colombia Latin America and the world declared Gustavo Petro the winner of Colombias presidential.

2 Petro won the runoff becoming the first left-wing. Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández receives a warm welcome at the National Congress of Oil Palm Growers in Bucaramanga Colombia on June 3. Petro who captured 404 percent of the vote in the first round was the runner-up in the 2018 presidential runoff.

Petros showing was the latest leftist political victory in Latin America fueled by voters desire for change. C The next president of Colombia will be elected by the people on Sunday. 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.

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. If leftist candidate Gustavo Petro wins he will be the first left-wing president. 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.

It is a race that seems to have defied every expectation and has been one the most significant for decades.

Colombia Leftist Petro Goes To Second Round With Businessman Hernandez Reuters