BREAKING: The Petrista Cepeda questions the results and will compete for the Presidency of Colombia with the right-wing De la Espriella
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The keys Generated with AI Iván Cepeda, of the Historical Pact, questions the results of the elections and will not recognize them until doubts about the census and challenges are clarified. Cepeda and Abelardo de la Espriella, from Defensores de la Patria, will face each other in the presidential second round on June 21 after being the most voted. With 92.85% of tables counted, De la Espriella has 43.63% of the votes and Cepeda 41.17%, far surpassing the rest of the candidates. Senator Paloma Valencia, from the Democratic Center, is third with 6.84%, followed by Sergio Fajardo (4.18%) and Claudia López (0.94%). Iván Cepeda, candidate of the leftist Historical Pact, assured this Sunday that he will not recognize the results of the presidential elections in Colombia, until doubts about the process related to the electoral roll and challenges in several voting stations are resolved. The far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, from the Defenders of the Homeland movement, and the leftist Iván Cepeda, from the Historical Pact, will contest the Presidency of Colombia in the second round on June 21 after being the most voted in the first round held this Sunday. With 92.85% of the tables counted, De la Espriella surprises by obtaining 9,515,558 votes (43.63%) and Cepeda, 8,977,429 (41.17%), numbers that make them unattainable for the rest of the candidates when less than 10% of the tables remain to be reported by the National Registry. Third place goes to Senator Paloma Valencia, of the party uribista Centro Democrático, which receives 1,492,468 votes in this partial measurement (6.84%), a percentage much lower than what the voting intention surveys gave it, and even lower than the 3.2 million votes it obtained on March 8 in the consultation of center and right-wing parties in which it was elected candidate. Sergio Fajardo, from the center party Dignidad & Compromiso, is in fourth place, with 911,611 votes, which represent 4.18%. Another center candidate, former Bogotá mayor Claudia López, is in fifth place with 205,546 votes (0.94%).
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Source: This article was originally published by El Español – Home and adapted for our international English-speaking audience.
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