Iván Cepeda became the official candidate for the 2026 presidential elections this Sunday. Historical Pactafter winning the partisan consultation by more than a million votes.
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Cepeda obtained more than 64% of the vote, a comfortable victory over Carolina Corcho, who barely had 29% of the votes.
The votes for Daniel Quintero were also counted, which several weeks ago withdrew from the race, but did not exceed 7%.
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“Democracy is imposed and we must obey it. The people have chosen freely. And now it is what Colombian society wants, whether backwards or forwards,” said Gustavo Petro in his X account.
Cepeda, a 63-year-old philosopher and human rights defender, won in the primaries of the Historical Pact party over Carolina Corcho, former Minister of Health of Petro, according to the count.
Before the first presidential round, scheduled for May 31, he will compete in other votes against figures from the left to define a single candidate. “Democracy is imposed”, “the people have chosen freely”Petro reacted on the X network.
Cepeda is a declared enemy of former President Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) and, like Petro, he denounced in debates in Congress the alleged relationship between paramilitaries with the former president and other politicians.
Last August, after a long judicial process that stemmed from these accusations, Uribe was sentenced to 12 years of house arrest for bribing members of those anti-guerrilla squads to deny their ties.
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