Colombia: Key Security Issues in the Radical Right's Victory · Global Voices
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Likewise they thanked the people who voted for the project Iván Cepeda was looking for next to Aída Quilcué
The defeat of #GustavoPetro's candidate does not necessarily weaken the #left, but rather strengthens it as an opposition force with legislative weight in #Colombia.
The Colombian presidential elections of 21 June 2026 rendered their verdict. The radical right-wing candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, was elected with a short head, with 49.7% of the vote against 48.7% for the left-wing candidate Ivan Cepeda. At the time when these lines are written, given the weakness of the gap, it is not impossible for recourses from the left to intervene. Ivan Cepeda thus for the moment refused to recognize the victory of…
Created: 24.06.2026 00:15 Updated: 24.06.2026 00:15 For months, polls gave Ivan Cepeda the winner. He ended up losing by 245 thousand votes, the second most closed round in the history of Colombia. Abelardo de la Espriella is the elected president, according to the pre-counting. It is worth reading without euphoria and without denying it. The first thing that strikes the attention is that Cepeda grew more. It went from 9.7 to 12.7 million, alm…
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