The results of Colombia鈥檚 May 27 presidential election confirmed that a run-off election between Gustavo Petro and Ivan Duque聽will be required to decide the country鈥檚 newest leader. The election is set for June 17.
Ivan Duque, former president Alvaro Uribe's prot茅g茅e and candidate for the right-wing Grand Alliance for Colombia, ended with聽39.14%. Centre-left ex-mayor of Bogota Gustavo Petro, running for the List of Decency聽coalition, won 25.09%.
Amid several controversies in the voting process, Colombians went to the polls on March 11 to elect 166 legislators to the House of Representatives and 102 senators.
Outraged by government failures to honour a peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), rural communities across Colombia have initiated a 鈥渘ational strike鈥 demanding widespread solutions to poverty, violence and drug trafficking.
The strike is the most far-reaching since 2013, when farmers took to the streets decrying abject poverty and negative economic effects of a free trade agreement with the United State
Peace supporters react to the plebiscite result.
The "No" vote was won by a half of a percentage point in a聽Colombian plebiscite on October 2 on a peace deal between the government and the left-wing Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), which aims to end more than five decades of civil war.
