Right-wing outsider wins Colombian election first round
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Mars, and in the early hours of Monday 1st June, these are our main stories. A right-wing political outsider has won the first round of Colombia's presidential election. Israeli troops have made their deepest incursion into southern Lebanon in a quarter of a century, capturing a strategically located castle. And researchers have developed a pill that can almost double the survival time of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer. also in this podcast.
You wake up in the morning, the first thing you do is you get the dust fan and brush out as you go walking around trying to find the dead mice in your home. That's not as good as getting a nice cup of coffee, I can assure you.
We hear about purgatory in the form of a plague of mice in Australia and in Poland, why people will now be able to take the 666 bus again. Who can save Colombia from the escalating violence caused by militant groups and drug gangs? That was the question voters were grappling with as they went to the polls in the first round of the country's presidential election. It's hardly surprising. Despite a peace agreement with the largest of the country's rebel factions in 2016, dissident groups have made parts of the country almost ungovernable. Already this year, hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced by fighting. With results in from Sunday's vote, we know that two men will contest a second round in three weeks' time.
It will be a stark choice, either the philosopher-turned-senator Ivan Severa, who's been endorsed by the outgoing president, or the now front-runner Abelardo de la Espriella, a businessman-cum-lawyer who idolises Donald Trump and calls himself the Tiger.
Here he is talking to supporters after the results were announced.
Here's your tiger. Let him roar and bite. Thank you, Colombia. My heart goes out to you. Thank you for your passion.
We'll confront, defeat and punish Colombia's enemies who seek to destroy our homeland. Petro's out.
Don't you dare keep trying to reject the election results because the people will rise up and punish you. I spoke to our South America analyst, Luis Fajardo, about the character of Abelardo de la Espriella.
He is flamboyant, a very, very colorful character, as he has been described. He made a big impact on social media.
Who won the first round of Colombia's presidential election?
He was originally a criminal defense lawyer. And he became famous by flaunting both his professional success as a lawyer and his substantial wealth. He traveled around in private jets. He was very, very outspoken. And he became very well known before finally joining this presidential election, where he campaigns as an outsider under the promise of reforming Colombian politics. And as he says, imposing new hardship on what he calls the left that is that in his words is destroying the country.
So his policy and Mr Cepeda, his contender now in the second round, those two policies very, very different, distinct in terms of the major problem that Colombia faces, all this violence. How are they going to do it?
Extremely different, as you say. Mr. Cepeda, who is running for the governing historic pact, the pact of the political party of the current president, Gustavo Petro, Mr. Cepeda says he wants to continue with the signature policy of Petro, which was trying to establish dialogue with a number of Colombian illegal armed groups, both Marxist guerrilla groups and criminal organizations. These have not been successful, these talks yet.
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