Colombia Votes in Polarized Election as Runoff Looms
Security concerns and crime have dominated the campaign, with polls showing Iván Cepeda ahead but short of an outright majority, officials said.
- Colombians are casting ballots in a polarizing presidential election with candidates holding radically different visions on addressing armed conflict.
- Frontrunner Iván Cepeda promises to negotiate peace deals with remaining rebel groups, while rivals Abelardo de la Espriella and Paloma Valencia vow a tougher stance.
- The election reflects the country's longstanding debate over how to resolve persistent violence from criminal groups.
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Washington TimesColombia’s presidential election pits outgoing leader’s ally against pro-Trump candidates
BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Colombians milled into voting stations on Sunday in the first round of the South American nation’s presidential election, choosing between candidates with radically diverging visions for the future of peace in a country haunted by decades of armed conflict. The vote, seen as a referendum on outgoing President Gustavo Petro’s policies, comes 10 years after Colombia signed an historic peace pact with guerrillas of the Revolution…
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elnorte.comColombians began voting this Sunday to elect President between left-wing reform proposals and hard-handed right-wing ones.
Colombia. The outgoing president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, already issued his vote in the first round of the presidential elections that began this Sunday in the country with a public statement of support for his follower Ivan Cepeda when teaching the ballot of the official candidate to the cameras. In a subsequent appearance, Petro addressed his critics and his “speakers” about his alleged “dictatory attempts” to stay in power. “It only makes…
A dozen candidates will compete in the first round in Colombia. Polls reach three favorites
BOGOTÁ.– A few minutes after the tables were opened at the polling station on Calle 85, in the T Zone of Bogotá, a long line of people waited Sunday to vote in Colombia's presidential elections. Between 8 and 16 local time (10 and 18 in Argentina), more than 41.4 million Colombians will have the opportunity to choose whether the country continues the path initiated by the first left-wing government of its history along with the outgoing presiden…
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