Colombia’s presidential election will be decided in a runoff on June 21 between a leftist and right-wing candidate from opposite sides of the political spectrum, after Sunday’s vote yielded no clear winner.
The right-wing Abelardo de la Espriella, a Donald Trump supporter, received the most votes, followed closely by the left-wing senator Iván Cepeda, an ally of current President Gustavo Petro. The campaign was marked by violence, involving drone strikes, kidnappings, killings, and the assassination of a presidential candidate at a rally last year.
Both men have different ideas on how to resolve Colombia’s brutal internal armed conflict, which has spanned decades but has resurfaced in recent years. On Sunday, no contender received more than 50% of the vote to win outright. While polls predicted Cepeda to defeat his right-wing adversary, official results showed him trailing with 41% of the vote against De La Espriella’s 43.7%, with nearly all ballots counted.
After winning the vote, De La Espriella declared in the runoff that he would “defeat tyranny, absolutism, calling the outcome a “triumph for those of us who have never experienced living off the state’s teat.
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