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Petro won the runoff with 50.42% of the vote to Hernández's 47.35%. [12] Petro dominated in regions on Colombia's Caribbean and Pacific coasts, [6] [13] and received over 81% of the vote in the coastal department of Chocó. [14] Due to an increased turnout among his supporters, Petro received nearly 2.7 million more votes in the second round ...
Elections in Colombia are regulated and controlled by the National Electoral Council which provides information on elections and election results in for the politics of Colombia. Colombia elects on national level a head of state — the president — and a legislature. The president is elected for a four-year term by the people.
The 2023 Colombian regional and municipal elections were held on 29 October 2023. [ 1 ] 32 governors and departmental assemblies and 1,102 mayors were elected. [ 2 ]
Allies of President Gustavo Petro lost by wide margins in municipal and provincial elections Sunday, in what analysts called a sign of growing discontent with Colombia’s first left-wing government.
On 30 October 2011, Gustavo Petro won the municipal election in Bogota. He took office on 1 January 2012. He is the first ex-guerrilla to hold such an important position in Colombia.
The mayors of Colombia's 1,102 municipalities are elected to a single four-year term by first-past-the-post. The mayor is the head of the local administrative and the legal representative of the municipality. [3] Each municipality has a municipal council (consejo municipal) made up of 7 to 21 members, depending on the municipality's population ...
It's one of the United States' few enduring alliances in an often-turbulent Latin America, one built around a decades-long partnership combating the nation's drug cartels
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