Ivan Cepeda Rejects Media Campaign in Colombia and Defends 12.7 Million Votes

Ivan Cepeda concedes defeat in Colombia’s presidential election

Th leftist presidential candidate Ivan Cepeda conceded defeat in Colombia’s presidential election. At a press conference, Cepeda said he accepted the results of the formal vote count that changed little to the preliminary count that was announced on Sunday. I have decided to accept the result of that process, which designates Abelardo de la Espriella [] The post Ivan Cepeda concedes defeat in Colombia’s presidential election appeared first on Colombia News.

Colombians Begin Heading to the Polls

They vote in presidential runoff between Ivan Cepeda and Abelardo de la Espriella. From 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, 13,742 polling stations will serve citizens eligible to elect the country’s next president. In this election, 1,414,661 Colombians will be able to cast their ballots from abroad. RELATED: Colombia Faces Stark Choice in Presidential []

Progressive candidate concedes Colombian presidential election to Trump-backed outsider

Iván Cepeda has conceded Colombia’s presidential election to Abelardo de la Espriella, a conservative outsider endorsed by U.S. President Donald Trump

Colombia Lurches to the Right

According to an initial tally released by Colombia’s electoral authorities yesterday, far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella eked out a victory over his left-wing rival, Sen. Ivan Cepeda, in Sunday’s presidential runoff election, winning 49.7 percent of the vote compared to the latter’s 48.7 percent. Though Cepeda is challenging the results, preliminary counts have proven accurate in previous Colombian elections, so the outcome is unlikely to change. As I wrote ahead of the runoff, this election has followed a number of familiar regional scripts. De la Espriella campaigned on a hard-line law-and-order platform, vowing to return Colombia to a wartime [...] The post Colombia Lurches to the Right appeared first on World Politics Review.