Posted on 06/19/2022 4:15:32 PM PDT by FarCenter
For the first time, Colombia will have a leftist president.
Gustavo Petro, a former rebel and a longtime senator who has pledged to transform the country’s economic system, has won Sunday’s election, according to preliminary results, setting the third largest nation in Latin America on a radically new path.
Mr. Petro received more than 50 percent of the vote, with more than 99 percent counted Sunday evening. His opponent, Rodolfo Hernández, a construction magnate who had energized the country with a scorched-earth anti-corruption platform, just over 47 percent.
Shortly after the vote, Mr. Hernández conceded to Mr. Petro.
“Colombians, today the majority of citizens have chosen the other candidate,” he told his supporters in Bucaramanga. “As I said during the campaign, I accept the results of this election.”
Just over 58 percent of Colombia’s 39 million voters turned out to cast a ballot, according to official figures.
Mr. Petro’s victory reflects widespread discontent in Colombia, a country of 50 million, with poverty and inequality on the rise and widespread dissatisfaction with a lack of opportunity, issues that sent hundreds of thousands of people to demonstrate in the streets last year.
“The entire country is begging for change,” said Fernando Posada, a Colombian political scientist, “and that is absolutely clear.”
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My family is crying.
Didn’t they see what happened to their neighbor, Venezuela?
Colombizuela?
Dominion hit again???
First?
South America politics has been mostly left leaning forever.
Maybe he’ll do as good as Biden!!
I wonder how much Soros was involved.
Good luck with that.
Uh-oh, Colombia is right next door to Venezuela!!!! A far-left bloc in the northwest corner of South America would be a disaster!!!!
And the feckless biden administration is just the regime to let it happen!! PHOOEY!!!!
Viva Venezuela...
So, we can write off Columbia then. We know how that works.
Success is not an option.
What’s the over/under on when Columbian refugees start streaming over our border?
They will get the poverty and dictatorship that they voted for.
Another rigged election
It will be ruined. Colombia managed to absorb Venezuelans that fled. Now the paradigm shift to “no opportunity, going in the wrong direction” blah blah blah.
The communists will turn another prosperous country into a mud hole. They are taking the potatus playbook to heart.
God forgive them .......
There’s more here already than you would know (Florida).
Mi familia esta llorando tambien….
Did the Venezuelans who fled to Colombia and became citizens vote leftist? One would think they had enough of communism but then again, people have an amazing ability to compartmentalize and not think things through. “I was starving in the old (communist) country, but Petro here says he will redistribute the wealth and make everyone equal - cool!”
May God help the good people of Columbia. My friends are devistated.
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