TheAltWorld Presidential, VP Candidates to Represent the Excluded in Colombia Win First Round of Elections
- Rania Khalek
- Friday 3 Jun 22
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Leftist Gustavo Petro won first place with more than 40% of the vote in the first round of Colombian presidential elections this weekend, with the second of two rounds on June 19. The guerrilla-turned-mayor Petro has campaigned on free college, pension redistribution, and implementing the peace deal with now demobilized armed groups.
What would it mean for the country if Petro wins in June? Alina Duarte, independent journalist and senior research fellow at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, explains.
“This is the first time that [a left coalition or party] has more than 8 million votes in Colombia…Everything in Colombia that sounds left is always persecuted, assassinated. So it’s amazing. –
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is a Middle East-based journalist for Breakthrough News. . Her journalism has appeared at The Grayzone, Jacobin, The Nation, The Intercept, FAIR, Vice, The Electronic Intifada, Al Jazeera and more. .
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