By Katy Watson and Patrick Jackson
BBC Recordsdata
Image source, Reuters
Image caption, Gustavo Petro poses with a family member after vote casting in Bogotá
Colombia’s next president will be a different between a primitive leftist rebellion and a particular person dubbed the country’s Trump after Sunday’s first spherical of vote casting.
Gustavo Petro, a primitive mayor of the capital Bogotá besides an ex-militant, topped the ballotas anticipated, taking spherical 40% of the vote.
Nonetheless Rodolfo Hernández got right here second no topic notion polls favouring conservative Federico Gutiérrez.
Mr Hernández and Mr Petro will face off in the second spherical on 19 June.
If Mr Petro, 62, wins he’ll be the main left-dash president in the country’s history. He has promised to repair the country’s deep inequalities and switch its reliance on fossil fuels to neat know-how.
The surprising result for Mr Hernández, a 77-365 days-extinct development magnate with a populist touch paying homage to the US’s ex-President Donald Trump, marks an upset for the extinct fair.
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Image caption, Rodolfo Hernández voted in Bucaramanga
He campaigned on an anti-corruption keep, no topic being below investigation for allegedly favouring an organization his son had lobbied for.
Whoever wins next month will wish to grapple with discontent over growing inequality and inflation, besides the legacy of the bloody battle between leftist guerrillas and the affirm which a 2016 peace settlement develop into supposed to terminate.
Iván Duque, the deeply unpopular outgoing president, develop into no longer allowed to face all yet again because he develop into restricted to a single term by the constitution.
As news unfold of Mr Petro’s lead in the main spherical, his supporters eminent in central Bogotá.
“Folks are showing they’re bored with the the same part, that they wish a alternate,” sound engineer Cristian Riano, 35, told Reuters news company.
Mr Petro’s working mate, the environmentalist Francia Márquez, hopes to develop into the nation’s first shadowy vice-president.
Federico Gutiérrez, the particular person viewed as the ideological successor to Iván Duque, had been tipped to return second but, with almost the full votes counted, he had won precise below 24% whereas Mr Hernández develop into on 28%.
Accepting defeat, Mr Gutiérrez referred to as on his supporters to abet Rodolfo Hernández and his working mate Marelen Castillo in the second spherical.
The second spherical guarantees to be a spirited fight.
Media caption, Tiktok has develop into a serious political battleground in Colombia as candidates reach out to younger voters