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results of the election. [ chosen successor, had been expected
Abelardo De La Espriella, and centre-right candidate, Paloma Valencia, are both enthusiastic about reopening the oil spigot and fracking. US interference is a big concern with the US president, Donald Trump, talking [of military
election on Sunday. That is no insignificant margin, given that De la Espriella’s lead over Cepeda amounted to little more than 670,000 votes – 43.7% against 40.9%. Although polls had shown the wealthy lawyer
results and became tainted by the [“false positives” scandal](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/19/colombia-false-positives-killings-general-mario-montoya-trial), when innocent people were extrajudicially killed by the army and falsely labelled as enemy combatants. Espriella is a criminal lawyer and millionaire businessman
Abelardo de la Espriella won the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday and will face senator Iván Cepeda, the candidate backed by leftwing president Gustavo Petro, in the runoff. With
election, and the president’s chosen candidate, the leftwing senator Iván Cepeda – widely seen as the architect of “total peace” – supports maintaining the programme. But the rightwing candidates Abelardo de la Espriella and Paloma Valencia
result.” The number of people [displaced by conflict](/news/longform/2025/2/26/everyone-wants-to-go-back-home-inside-catatumbos-displacement-crisis), for instance, has doubled in the last year. The ICRC found that 235,619 people were individually displaced by fighting in 2025, with 42 percent alone