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The leftist
Gustavo Petro
takes the lead in the presidential race in
Colombia
with 51% of the votes against 46% for the independent millionaire
Rodolfo Hernández,
after the scrutiny of 65% of the votes, the electoral authority reported this Sunday.
The winner will succeed the unpopular conservative Iván Duque, who by law could not stand for re-election.
Petro leads the independent populist Rodolfo Hernández by almost 800,000 votes, who receives 9,277,863 votes in the ballot, which represents 46.85%, according to bulletin number 10 of the
Registrar's Office.
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