Ione Wells
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Global News Podcast · Right-wing candidate claims victory in Colombian election · 22 Jun 2026
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Here in Barranquilla, he addressed supporters who were cheering him on, all of them wearing the yellow Colombian national football shirt.
And he said that this was a new chapter for the country and that this would be a win not just for Colombians who voted for him, but also those who didn't vote for him.
Now, his left-wing rival, Iván Cepeda, and the current president, Gustavo Petro, both have said that this result is not yet official.
What they're referring to there is how
This is essentially the initial count.
There is then a process of verification, which is already pretty much underway.
Quite a lot of the votes have already been verified.
And so Esprit has already had the recognition from many other world leaders.
But I think certainly it looks like Ivan Zepeda and the current president, Gustavo Petro, are planning to challenge the results if they can.
It looks like Gustavo Petro himself is already sowing doubt.
accusing some polling stations of being compromised, although he hasn't provided any evidence of that yet.
Well, Esprayer really defined his campaign by taking a very hard-line approach when it comes to security.
He said that he would scrap the current government's policy of prioritising negotiation with armed groups and cartels in Colombia, instead saying that he would introduce a very tough military crackdown, including aerial bombardment campaigns, fumigation campaigns over coca crops, the crops that produce cocaine, but also working more closely with the United States, for example.
He's also pledged to build mega-prisons in Colombia's jungles for some of the country's highest offending criminals as well.
He has certainly, in that sense, modelled himself, I think, on the security policies of other right-wing leaders in the region, including El Salvador's President Bukele, President Neboa.
in Ecuador as well.
This is part of a wider trend, really, of Latin America shifting to the right.
He is the latest in a stream of elections that have seen countries in this region shift to the right, much to the pleasure of Donald Trump in the White House, who has very much endorsed these security policies.
A lot has suddenly happened that we haven't been used to.
Who is it?
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