Bogota.- Abelardo de la Espriella, from the Defenders of the Homeland movement, won this Sunday in the second round of the presidential elections in Colombia by obtaining 12,921,702 votes (49.65%), a narrow advantage of 248,310 ballots (0.95 percentage points) over the leftist Iván Cepeda, according to 99.65% of the preliminary count prepared by the National Registry.
Cepeda, of the Historical Pact, party of the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, receives 12,673,392 votes, equivalent to 48.70%, indicates the preliminary count.
The difference between the two candidates is much closer than the polls predicted, so it will be necessary to wait for the scrutiny to officially confirm the result.
