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What next for Colombia? Voters tacking conservative in the first presidential runoff to feature a straight choice between left and right. 41-year old Ivan Duque beating Gustavo Petro, the former mayor of Bogota. Just how far to the right will Duque go? The protege of hardline former president Alvaro Uribe insists he won't tear up the 2016 peace deal with Farc rebels, but Duque wants to seriously amend it. Can he? Will he?
Colombians have elected a new president. Gustavo Petro, 62, is set to become the first leftist in the country's top job. The former rebel of the now defunct M-19 movement beat millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in Sunday's election. Petro will take the oath of office in August, replacing the deeply unpopular Ivan Duque. For analysis, we speak to Gerard Martin, a political sociologist based in Medellin, Colombia.
Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday (June 19), after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election. In another historic achievement for a country where 10 percent of the population identify as Afro-descendants, environmental activist and feminist Francia Marquez will become Colombia's first black woman vice president. Christopher Sabatini, a senior fellow for Latin America at Chatham House, gives his analysis.
Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday (June 19), after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election.
Ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro was elected the first ever left-wing president of Colombia on Sunday (June 19), after beating millionaire businessman Rodolfo Hernandez in a tense and unpredictable runoff election.
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