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Presidential, VP Candidates to Represent the Excluded in Colombia Win First Round of Elections
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. –
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