Tag: 2018 Colombia Elections

• Sunday, June 17th 2018 - 02:35 UTC

  Two radical options will decide the Colombian presidential runoff on Sunday

  

  The first round of presidential elections in Colombia ended with two leading candidates who will face off next Sunday: Conservative Ivan Duque led with 39% of the vote in the first round, and leftist Gustavo Petro followed with 25%. Centrist Sergio Fajardo came in third place with 23.8% of the votes, and his supporters will now help decide the run-off outcome.

• Wednesday, June 13th 2018 - 08:30 UTC

  Opinion polls confirm Duque as winner in Colombia's presidential runoff

  

  Right wing candidate Ivan Duque looks set to win Colombia’s presidential run-off on June 17, two polls published on Friday indicated, as he held on to his long-running lead over leftist Gustavo Petro.

• Monday, May 28th 2018 - 06:19 UTC

  Colombian election: clear cut right and left candidates will dispute the 17 June runoff

  

  Colombia’s left and right will be holding a runoff to compete for the presidency in June after hard-line conservative Ivan Duque and ex-guerrilla Gustavo Petro scooped most of the votes in the first round of Sunday elections.<br />
  The second vote will take place on June 17, which could see Colombia's already fragile peace deal with the FARC guerrillas shaken.

• Saturday, May 26th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Colombia's presidential election: another referendum on the peace deal?

  

  On Sunday, Colombians will head to the polls to elect a new president. At play in this year’s election are a range of issues: Venezuelan migration, economic situation, rampant corruption, high levels of inequality, but above all is the country's historic peace accord that ended over half a century of armed conflict.