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Surprising Win for Right Leaning Presidential Candidate in Colombia 77%
6/1/2026, 7:48:34 PM
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Welcome back to NTD Evening News. I'm Keri Dunst.
A surprise victory for the right-leaning candidate in Colombia's presidential election.
A political newcomer who's friendly to the US and to President Trump takes the win in the first round of the elections.
Meanwhile, Colombia's political left now questioning the results.
NTD's international correspondent Arion Pajar is in South America with the story.
>> Right-leaning criminal defense lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella with a surprise victory in the first round
presidential elections.
Polls had him trailing behind two other candidates, but de la Espriella getting 44% of the votes.
>> Always uh polls tend to underestimate uh these types of sentiments and so on.
>> Evan Ellis is the Latin America research professor at the US Army War College.
Ellis was also part of President Trump's Latin America staff during his first term.
>> This is an important uh decision that uh Colombians are making about the path that they want to take for security,
whether it's uh standing behind the application of their laws and their institutions or you know, continuing negotiation with armed groups.
I think uh the popularity that de la Espriella has reflects the frustration that Colombians felt.
>> Current left-leaning president Gustavo Petro is often being criticized for allegedly not doing enough to counter violent gangs and drug trafficking.
Meanwhile, right-leaning de la Espriella promising to crack down on violent crime with force if necessary and creating mega prisons in Colombia's jungle, similar to President Nayib Bukele in El Salvador.
After the first results came in on Sunday night, left-leaning candidate even Cepeda said he wouldn't accept them, alleging outside interference.
Ellis says the allegations don't have much impact because the runoff election would be between de la Espriella and Cepeda anyways, but the allegations could potentially affect the second round of voting.
>> Having uh sowed the seeds of doubt in round one, that might be opening stage for questioning those results in round two.
>> De la Espriella is expected to absorb the votes of other right-leaning candidates in the second round of voting.
Before the elections, predictions had already shown that De la Espriella would most likely win the runoff, even if he hadn't won the first round of voting.
This is expected to affect the United States as the US State Department assesses that 97% of cocaine in the United States originates in Colombia, and production increased by more than four times under Petro, something De la Espriella is expected to reverse.
reverse. This would mean less money flowing to organized crime in the US and fewer drugs trafficked into the country.
The election is heading into a runoff because neither candidate got more than 50% of the votes, and the second round of voting is set to take place in 3
weeks.
Now, De la Espriella is widely believed to win the election with major online betting platforms saying there's a 90% chance of him taking the victory.
Aryan Pastor, NTD News.
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