Radio Havana Cuba | Colombia: Historic results in presidential elections

BOGOTA, June 4 (RHC) The most significant event this week in Colombia was the large number of votes reached in the first electoral round last Sunday by the alternative and leftist forces, represented by the Historic Pact (PH).

In this presidential election, 6 candidates sought access to the Nariño Council and two showed relevant results.

The broad vote in favor of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, the presidential and vice-presidential candidates, respectively, for the PH, defeating Federico Gutiérrez, the candidate for Uribismo, a political movement based on the ideology of former President Alvaro Uribe Velez, who advocates neoliberalism, the political right and populism.

Voting for Rodolfo Hernandez of the Governors Anti-Corruption League, a controversial candidate chosen due to an illegal million-dollar contract, misogyny, vulgarity and abuse, as well as for being an admirer of German fascist Adolf Hitler and who he is compared to the former head of the
United States, Donald Trump.

Hernandez removed Gutierrez to third, a fact that is one of the surprises of this election.

In Sunday’s election, the historic charter’s vote count was 8,542,020, accounting for 40.34% of the vote, an unprecedented number for progressive and left-leaning candidates.

He did not get 50% plus one, he went to the second round on the nineteenth, where he will face Hernandez and Marilyn Castillo, who received 5,965,531 votes, with a score of 28.17%.

Hernandez could make it to Casa de Nariño if, sportingly, those who voted for Gutierrez do so in the second round on June 19.

However, according to a new survey, the presidential candidate for the historic pact wins the next election round with 44.9% of the vote.

A new study by the National Consulting Center for Semana reports that Hernandez will receive 41% of the vote.

former mayor of Bogotá and former Colombian presidential candidate Antanas Mockus; Congressman Antonio Sangueno and Senator-elect Ariel Avila, both from Alianza Verde; Luis Gilberto Murillo, the vice presidential candidate for Sergio Fajardo who came fourth in this first presidential round, expressed his support for Petro and Francia Márquez.

In addition, they did politician and former minister Alejandro Gaviria; Senator Jose Ritter Lopez, Partido de la U; Mabel Lara of neoliberalism, among others.

According to the laws of Colombia, to reach the presidency, the winning formula must receive half plus one of the total valid votes, which was not possible last Sunday.

So, three weeks later – in this case on June 19 – a second round will be held among the candidates with the most votes and the candidate with the most votes will rule for four years without having the right to re-vote. -election.

According to the electoral census, more than 39 million Colombians are entitled to exercise their right to vote: 51.6% are women (20 million 111 thousand 908) and men represent 48.4% (18 million 890 thousand 331). (Source: PL)