🇨🇴 COLOMBIA HOLDS FIRST ROUND OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION TODAY — A REFERENDUM ON LATIN AMERICA’S LEFT

COLOMBIA’S FIRST ROUND OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IS UNDERWAY SUNDAY, WIDELY VIEWED AS A REFERENDUM ON OUTGOING PRESIDENT GUSTAVO PETRO — THE COUNTRY’S FIRST-EVER LEFTIST LEADER — WHO IS CONSTITUTIONALLY BARRED FROM A SECOND TERM. IF NO CANDIDATE CLEARS 50%, A RUNOFF IS SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 21. 🔷 THE THREE MAIN CANDIDATES: ▪️ IVÁN CEPEDA (HISTORIC PACT) — PETRO’S IDEOLOGICAL SUCCESSOR, RUNNING ON

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