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Right-wing candidate pulls ahead in first round of Colombia's presidential vote

Iván Cepeda, an ally of Colombia's outgoing President Gustavo Petro who questioned the results of the election. [![Supporters cheer during a campaign

Trump admirer’s surprise first-round win is a blow to Colombia’s traditional conservatives

Iván Cepeda have just under three weeks to compete for the roughly 3.6m votes that did not go to either of them in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday. That

Colombia goes to polls in election pitting outgoing leader’s ally against pro-Trump candidates

election has basically turned into a three-horse race. The senator and peace-builder Iván Cepeda – a Petro ally – has led the polls and promises to carry on with Petro’s “total peace” initiative

Colombian election reflects on ‘total peace’ promise as violence surges again

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, close behind in the polls, both promise to scrap

Colombia’s far-right presidential candidate De la Espriella wins first round of vote ahead of runoff

Iván Cepeda, the candidate backed by leftwing president Gustavo Petro, in the runoff. With 100% of ballots counted, the outsider and Donald Trump admirer Espriella secured 43.7% of the vote – just over 10.3m votes

Colombia’s climate crossroads: Trumpism casts shadow over presidential battle

Iván Cepeda to run for president. Photograph: Carlos Ortega/EPA Muhamad, a former environment minister, tells the attendees: “We must win in the first round because the future of Colombia will be decided here, in this

Colombia prepares to go to polls in election shadowed by resurgence of political violence

Iván Cepeda, 63, who is leading in the polls and is regarded as the architect of the government’s “total peace” effort to sign disarmament deals with all criminal groups. Many security experts [consider

Violence escalates in Colombia with dozens of attacks before presidential vote

campaign for votes in Colombia](https://www.npr.org/2026/03/06/nx-s1-5727603/farc-colombia-election) Rebel groups have staged 26 attacks with explosives and drones since Friday, including a deadly blast Saturday on a highway between the cities of Cali and Popayan