The urugist Duque has obtained more votes than the candidate of the left, Gustavo Petro. There has been an abstention of 50.8% of the voters.
The conservative candidate, Ivan Duque, has been elected president of Colombia with 54.28% of the votes, compared to 41.54% of votes obtained by the progressive candidate, Gustavo Petro, according to data corresponding to 93.26% of the vote. .
Specifically, Duque has achieved 9,673,022 votes, compared to 7,402,594 votes of Petro, according to data from the National Electoral Council of Colombia (CNE). In addition, a 50.81% abstention rate and 743,926 blank votes have been recorded.
After knowing the results, Duque said that with his victory this Sunday comes to power "a new generation" and stressed that govern with the intention of uniting the country.
"With humility and with honor I want to tell the Colombian people that I will give all my energies to unite our country: no more divisions, let's think of a country with all and for all," said Duque in a speech before his supporters in Bogotá .
Therefore, he stressed that for him tonight "there are no defeated citizens", since he wants to be the president of all Colombians, those who voted for him, those who did not and those who opted for blank suffrage .
The polls opened at 8:00 am (3:00 p.m. in Euskadi) and closed at 4:00 p.m. (11:00 p.m. in Euskadi). The Ministry of the Interior has stressed that "no security problems have arisen" during the voting day, although the Immediate Reception Unit for Electoral Transparency has pointed out that 404 complaints of irregularities have been registered until 3:00 p.m.
The progressive candidate to the elections of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, has recognized this Sunday his defeat in the second round of the presidential elections, which have given the victory to the conservative Iván Duque, with 54% of the votes.
"What a defeat, eight million Colombians and free Colombians standing up, there is no defeat, for now we will not be a government," Petro said in his personal Twitter account.
On the other hand, former President Juan Manuel Santos has congratulated Duque by telephone as he has announced through his Twiiter account, while offering him "all the government's collaboration to make an orderly and quiet transition."