Colombia’s far-right presidential candidate De la Espriella wins first round of vote ahead of runoff

What happened

According to The Guardian’s source item, Colombia’s far-right presidential candidate De la Espriella wins first round of vote ahead of runoff, Lawyer and Trump admirer has risen rapidly in the polls and will face Iván Cepeda in election runoff in three weeks A far-right lawyer and Donald Trump admirer will go head-to-head against leftwing senator Iván Cepeda in the race to be Colombia’s next president after he won a surprise victory in the first round of voting. With 100% of ballots counted, the outsider Abelardo de la Espriella secured 43.7% of the vote – just over 10.3m votes – compared with 40.9% (about 9.6m votes) for Cepeda, a philosopher and human rights activist who has served as a senator since 2014 and is backed by the current leftwing president, Gustavo Petro. Continue reading…

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