Vänsterkandidat vann valet med knapp marginal
Vänsterkandidaten och tidigare gerillamedlemmen Gustavo Petro har vunnit presidentvalet i Colombia, rapporterar Reuters.
Petro, som blir landets förste vänsterpresident, gick till val på att reformera pensionssystemet, införa högre skatter för rika och fasa ut olja och kolkraft.
Hans motkandidat, den 77-årige byggmagnaten Rodolfo Hernández, har jämförts med Donald Trump och haft en stark närvaro på Tiktok.
Enligt siffror från Colombias valmyndighet strax efter midnatt fick Petro 50,8 procent av rösterna och Hernández 46,9 procent.
På Twitter kallar Petro valresultatet för ”den första folkliga segern”. Hernández har erkänt sig besegrad.
Valdeltagandet låg på runt 48 procent, enligt City Paper Bogotá.
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Wikipedia (en)
Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡusˈtaβo fɾanˈsisko ˈpetɾo uˈreɣo]; born 19 April 1960) is a Colombian politician, economist, senator and is the president-elect of Colombia, elected on the 19th of June after a historic election campaign. He defeated Rodolfo Hernández in the second round of the 2022 presidential election on 19 June.
At 17 years of age, he became a member of the guerrilla group 19th of April Movement, which later evolved into the M-19 Democratic Alliance, a political party in which he was elected to be member of the Chamber of Representatives in the 1991 election. Petro served as a senator as a member of the Alternative Democratic Pole party following the 2006 parliamentary election with the second-largest vote in the country. In 2009, he resigned his position to aspire to the presidency of Colombia in the 2010 presidential election, finishing fourth in the race.After problems and ideological differences with the leaders of the Alternative Democratic Pole, he founded the movement Humane Colombia to compete for the mayoralty of Bogotá. On 30 October 2011, he was elected Mayor of Bogotá in the local elections of the city, a position he assumed on 1 January 2012. On 27 May 2018, he came second in the first round of the presidential election with over 25% of the votes and lost in the run-off election on 17 June.
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