Local election results show ‘Colombia wants peace’: Santos
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday hailed the outcome of Sunday’s local elections as a demonstration that “Colombia wants peace.”
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos on Sunday hailed the outcome of Sunday’s local elections as a demonstration that “Colombia wants peace.”
The central Colombian town of Yopal elected a new mayor who has been running the last month of his campaign from jail where he is held on corruption charges.
Colombia’s capital Bogota elected Enrique Peñalosa, a centrist former mayor, to lead the city’s administration between 2016 and 2019, ending a 12-year rule by scandal-ridden leftist administrations.
Colombia’s polling station closed doors at 4PM local time after a relatively peaceful local election day that did see hundreds of complaints about fraud and electoral irregularities.
Colombians head to the polls Sunday in local elections whose winners could be tasked with implementing a peace agreement which the government hopes to sign with FARC guerrillas by March.
Colombia’s Interior Minister is being investigated for illegally trying to gain support for coalition parties ahead of Sunday’s local elections.
Colombia Migration confirmed that at least 2,200 foreigners will be able to vote across the country in Colombia’s local elections on October 25.
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Whether he admits or not, Colombia’s vice president German Vargas is illegally meddling in upcoming local elections to amplify the power for his party, according to news website La Silla Vacia.