The candidate of the Historical Pact Coalition Gustavo Petro collected 40 % of the votes of the first round, against 28 % for Rodolfo Hernandez. He could become the country’s first left -wing president after the election on June 19.
Le Monde with AFP
Left opponent Gustavo Petro came widely in the lead, Sunday, May 29, from the first round of the presidential election in Colombia. He will face an independent candidate in the second round, Rodolfo Hernandez, according to the official provisional results published in the evening.
m. Petro accumulates 40.33 % of the votes, ahead of Mr. Hernandez (28.14 %), indicate these results given by the national register, in charge of the organization of the ballot, after the counting of more than 97 % of the bulletins. The conservative candidate Federico Gutierrez, representing the traditional Colombian right, is in third position with 23.90 %.
a right that is afraid
For the first time in its history, Colombia could elect a leftist president during the presidential election, whose second round will take place on June 19. At the head of a coalition of progressive parties, a historic pact, candidate Gustavo Petro, 62, arrived largely first in all polls for months. And he is very scary on the right, which has governed since the independence of the country, two hundred and twelve years ago. Elected in 2018, Ivan Duque cannot be represented.