What Does Trump Ally De La Espriella's Win in Razor-Tight Election Mean for Colombia?
De la Espriella won 49.66% of the vote and will replace Gustavo Petro, promising tougher security policies and a break with the left.
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What does Trump ally De la Espriella's win in razor-tight election mean for Colombia?
Abelardo de la Espriella's victory over Ivan Cepeda reflects sharply competing visions for the country's future, with experts stressing incoming administration will need to make nearly half of the population feel included in the next government.
Colombia: The 'Tiger's' victory signals a rightward shift
With the election of Abelardo de la Espriella, an ultra-right-wing outsider has won the presidential runoff in Colombia for the first time. The tight victory marks a political shift and could trigger new conflicts.
After Argentina, Ecuador and Bolivia, the right has recorded a new victory, this time in Colombia, with the election of Abelardo de la Espriella. Presented by many Western media as a leader of the far right, this lawyer and businessman promises above all to restore state authority in a country undermined by drug trafficking, guerrillas and corruption. And another election victory for the Latin American right: after Javier Milei in Argentina, Dan…
Senator Iván Cepeda will not be the successor of Gustavo Petro, and failed in his intention to give Colombia a second leftist government. Ultraright Abelardo De la Espriella won by a very narrow margin, of less than 1% of the votes, and will be the next president of the Republic, while Cepeda will lead the opposition from the seat in the Senate that the legislation guarantees to the second in the contest. Continue reading
Iván Cepeda's Historical Pact still clings to recognizing the preliminary results of the pre-counting and his last letters are played in the scrutiny: the senator raised yesterday to 57,000 the claims in the process but, as he advances, no substantial modification is foreseen on the results that they gave Abelardo de la Espriella as winner. Therefore, the party already announced that it entered a new political stage and will begin to draw the li…
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