Colombian Peace Deal Critic to Face Fiery Leftist in Runoff
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Right-winger Ivan Duque, who wants to overhaul a peace deal with Marxist rebels, won Colombia's first-round presidential election on Sunday, setting up a runoff next month with leftist Gustavo Petro, who has pledged to confront privileged elites.
The first election since the peace accord was signed with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2016 now heads for a June 17 runoff to select the successor to President Juan Manuel Santos, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the five-decade-old conflict.
Duque, 41, has pledged to toughen the terms of the peace deal and ensure former rebels pay for their war crimes, while Petro has provoked alarm among investors with pledges to overhaul Colombia's orthodox economic policy and redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor.
Read more at: https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-05-27/colombians-vote-for-new-president-with-peace-deal-economy-at-stake
Duque, the "right-winger", 39.1%
Petro, the "left-winger", 25.1%
They go to a run off, I was hearing how conservative websites were looking at this cheering for the conservative. Perhaps, there wouldn't be a run off if one of the candidates got more than 50%, as it is, that 25.1% is certainly a distant second.
So, now, Brazil, Argentina and Colombia all have a chance to have a Conservative government, vs. Venezuela and Bolivia which are allegedly "socialist" or "communist", Venezuela just seems to be a power grab and everyone else gets the shaft in their basketcase economy.
