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Gustavo Petro Questions the Preliminary Count that Gives the Advantage to Abelardo De La Espriella and Demands Waiting for Scrutiny

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Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, rejected this Sunday that a winner of the presidential elections could be proclaimed based on the preliminary vote count and denounced the existence of “many irregularities” in the election day.

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Colombian Senator Iván Cepeda, candidate of President Gustavo Petro, asked for vigilance in speech to supporters after being defeated by less than 1 percentage point by ultra-rightist lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella. According to the quick count, Espriella won with 49.65% of the votes, against 48.70% of Cepeda, a difference of about 245 thousand votes, in an election closely followed internationally after Trump's support for the lawyer and the c…

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Colombia’s president, Gustavo Petro, rejected this Sunday that a winner of the presidential elections could be proclaimed based on the preliminary vote count and denounced the existence of “many irregularities” in the election day.

·Guayaquil, Ecuador
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The right-wing candidate leads the pre-counting of the presidential runoff in front of Iván Cepeda, in a closed election that still needs to be ratified by official scrutiny. His program raises state reduction, tax relief, tough hand in security,1a plan to use blockchain as a traceability standard in public procurement and the use of AI for the identification system (DIAN), security, taxes and state reduction.

Results of the elections in Colombia, EN VIVO Abelardo de la Espriella wins the second round according to the pre-count Who is Ana Lucía Pineda, the businesswoman who will be the next first lady of ColombiaThe president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, opened this Sunday the door to recognize the victory of right-wing lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella in the presidential elections if confirmed by the official scrutiny of the second round, although he …

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Colombia is facing a political shift: Trump-backed candidate de la Espriella is unstoppable, but the government camp wants the preliminary result to be examined.

Buenos Aires, 21 June (NA) — The president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, denounced alleged irregularities in the system of counting the presidential elections and demanded a comprehensive review of the results, after the first computations showed a tight advantage of Abelardo de la Espriella in the balloting against Iván Cepeda. Through an extensive message published on his social networks, the president said that he had warned previously about al…

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3cat.cat broke the news on Sunday, June 21, 2026.
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