Colombia elects Gustavo Petro as first leftist President
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Jun 20, 2022 09:53
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Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia's Presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country's history. Mr. Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 7,16,890 votes. The two had been technically tied in polling ahead of the vote.
