Far Right Wins in Colombian Elections
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Abelardo de la Espriella, winner of Colombia’s presidential election according to the pre-count, appeared this Sunday dressed in the team shirt in a armored fish tank. Thousands of followers with Colombian flags and uniforms paid tribute to him in a plaza in Barranquilla, an animator shook the crowd, campaign songs thundered over loudspeakers, people shouted, but still the euphoria was contained. The overwhelming victory they expected was not. C…
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The results from Colombia’s presidential runoff this week were a decisive victory by right-wing outsider Abelardo De la Espriella over leftist Ivan Cepeda. De la Espriella previously expressed support for President Donald Trump and was rewarded by an endorsement from the U.S. president during the runoff, despite never having run for office previously, reported the Associated Press. De la Espriella, a criminal defense attorney who goes by “El Tig…
Colombia: Who is Abelardo de la Espriella, the tiger that gives the start for the Presidency?ELECTIONS. Abelardo de la Espriella's victory in Colombia comes at a time particularly relevant to Latin America. Not only because it puts an end to four years of leftist Gustavo Petro's government, but because it occurs in the middle of an electoral cycle that includes Colombia, Peru and Brazil, the three most important economies in South America, disco…
News to the Day and to the Hour Latest News of the day The victory of lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella in the pre-count of the second presidential round of Colombia not only marks a change of course for the country, but it shakes the geopolitical board of Latin America. With 99.99% of the tables informed by the Registry, De la Espriella consolidated 12,959,542 votes, surpassing by a narrow margin of 250,830 votes the left leader Ivan Cepeda, who…
Far Right Wins in Colombian Elections
With an aggressive campaign and a narrow margin, Abelardo de la Espriella has won the runoff election, paving the way for an intensification of the class struggle. With a margin of less than 1%, the far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella emerged victorious in the second round of Colombia’s presidential election, according to preliminary results. He defeated Iván Cepeda, the candidate backed by current President Gustavo Petro and the broad …
Although Abelardo de la Espriella is the new president-elect of Colombia, winning is not the same as governing. With a margin of less than 1%, that is to say 240,000 votes of difference, ‘El Tigre’ will have an important challenge that, unlike the ... campaign process, will require him to make realistic adjustments to his efectist electoral messages and define now a program of timely government that responds to the main challenges that he will f…
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