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2 days agoGustavo Petro wins the Colombian election becoming the countrys first leftist president.

. Heres what he plans to do However 62-year-old Petro is a. 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. Previous presidents of Colombia studied in the US.

Colombia goes into elections Sunday with a leftist looking to make history World Hes running to be Colombias 1st left-wing president. As we know last May 29th in the first round of the presidential elections the candidates of the Historical Pact Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez obtained the highest number of votes with 8527768 votes 4032. Friday May 20 2022 Poll Tracker.

With 98 of the votes counted early results showed left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro with just over 40 of the votes the populist former mayor of Bucaramanga Rodolfo Hernandez with 28 and. 1 day agoBOGOTA Colombia Colombia will be governed by a leftist president for the first time after former rebel Gustavo Petro narrowly defeated. 1 day ago- Colombias first ever left-wing President-elect Gustavo Petro on Sunday lauded the first popular victory following his election success against millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez.

Petro won the first round with just. 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 House of Representatives Cámara de Representantes has 162 members elected for a four-year term by proportional representation.

On May 29 Colombia will hold its first round of voting to choose the successor to President Ivan Duque who cant run for reelection due to term limits. The Congress Congreso has two chambers. Colombias 2022 Presidential Election By Chase Harrison and Jon Orbach See how the competition between presidential hopefuls is shaping up ahead of the May 29 first-round vote.

June 17 2022 100 pm ET Listen to article 2 minutes BOGOTÁ ColombiaFor decades Colombia elected establishment politicians who hewed to the center-right and helped make the country the USs. 1 day agoA woman cleans the capitals main voting center in preparation of the presidential runoff election in Bogota Colombia Friday June 17 2022. The election result could upend the USs relationship with Colombia whose influence in the region has been waning for some time.

Colombians could be poised to see a notable political shift in their country. AP PhotoFernando Vergara AP. 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 commit violence.

It is a presidential election unlike. 1 day agoby Adriaan Alsema June 19 2022 Progressive Senator Gustavo Petro won Colombias presidential elections according to the quick vote count by the National Registry. Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez celebrating after winning the elections on Sunday in Bogotá Colombia.

1 day ago19 Jun 2022. 2 days agoIf 62-year-old former guerrilla Gustavo Petro wins on June 19 he will be Colombias first leftist leader. Gustavo Petro a former member of the M-19 rebel movement who has vowed profound social and economic change has won Colombias presidency beating the construction magnate Rodolfo.

The preliminary results announced by the National Registry are unofficial and could be revised by the National Electoral Council after a formal scrutiny of the votes in the coming week. 2 days agoHernández shocked Colombia when he made it to Sundays runoff after ousting a number of career politicians from the race in the first round of voting on 29 May. 2 days agoColombians head to the polls on Sunday for a high-stakes election between two populist presidential candidates promising to fundamentally transform the country.

Colombia elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. 23 hours agoWe are writing a new history for Colombia Latin America and the world declared Gustavo Petro the winner of Colombias presidential election in. The second majority headed by businessman Rodolfo Hernández and Marelen Castillo received 5953209 votes 2815.

Petro took the most votes then some. Petro who captured 404 percent of the vote in the first round was the runner-up in the 2018 presidential runoff. The leftist ex-mayor of Bogotá who spent time as a guerrilla fighter.

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