Una Colombia dividida elige a su nuevo presidente entre De la Espriella y Cepeda: ¿qué está en juego?
De la Espriella led the first round with 43.7%, while Cepeda seeks to rally voters around a social agenda and peace talks.
- On Sunday, Colombia holds a runoff election between opposition lawyer Espriella, who led the first round with 43.7%, and Senator Cepeda, representing President Gustavo Petro's progressive coalition.
- Analyst Karol Sol from Universidad del Norte describes two conflicting visions: Cepeda's social and pacifist approach to peace versus Espriella's focus on security and order against armed criminal groups.
- The Pacto Hist government reduced poverty to 28% in 2025, the country's lowest on record, yet faces criticism over inflation at 5.6% and growth of 2.4% amid fiscal deficits.
- Trump broke his silence to offer Espriella "respaldo completo y total," targeting business sectors in Estados Unidos rather than the general electorate, analysts say.
- Analyst Sol identifies a class divide, with ascending sectors feeling burdened by taxes; the election outcome will determine the future of the Pacto Hist progressive project.
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Colombia's citizens no longer rely on a state in which violence is steadily increasing, and for many, the extremely right-wing presidential candidate de la Espriella becomes a hopeful bearer.
Colombia elects president this Sunday. It goes no further: it is the second round, the final vote. We are facing a face or cross that shows a clearly polarized country.More than 41 million Colombians must choose between leftist Iván Cepeda and right-winger Abelardo de la Espriella. The winner will take the position of president for the next four years in place of Gustavo Petro, who ends his term.In the run for the presidency there were 14 candid…
This Sunday, Colombians will go to vote for the second round of Colombia’s presidential elections, from which the future tenant of the Casa de Nariño will emerge. The polls give as a favorite the candidate of the movement Defensores de la patria Abelardo de la Espriella, who gave the surprise in the first round when imposing the official candidate, Iván Cepeda , who seemed unbeatable a year ago. The population will choose the person who will hav…
Two antagonistic political projects are faced in the second round of Colombian elections marked by tension. More information: Colombia celebrates its most violent elections in 8 years between the continuity of the left and the arrival of the ultra-right.
A few days after Colombians define the Presidency of the Republic between the criminal lawyer and Iván Cepeda, Infobae Colombia consulted leading political scientists and analysts to degranate the narrative of the extreme right-wing candidate; it does break with the traditional system or is the strategy of the elites to recycle their power
Within hours of the opening of the polls, the candidates consolidate political backing and deploy their latest communication strategies.
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