Photo: Gustavo Petro and his running mate Francia Márquez celebrate their victory. On Sunday, Gustavo Petro won Colombia’s presidential election with 50.4 percent of the vote, defeating his opponent Rodolfo Hernández, who garnered 47.3 percent of votes. Petro, who has campaigned for the presidency three times, will be Colombia’s first leftist president, and Francia Márquez, his running mate, will be the country’s first Afro-Colombian vice president. As Hernández conceded the election, sitting President Iván Duque guaranteed a peaceful and democratic transition of power. As Colombia’s new leader, Petro will inherit the implementation of the faltering 2016 peace accord and the crisis in neighboring Venezuela.

Source: The Guardian June 24, 2022 18:03 UTC