Colombia goes left in Congress elections

With just over 90% of the votes counted in the three presidential coalitions, Gustavo Petro has shown his strength and leads the Historical Pact consultation with a huge advantage, in which he has close to 80% of the preferences, almost four million votes. Sergio Fajardo, in the weakened Centro Esperanza Coalition, had 33% . Federico Gutiérrez, in the Team for Colombia, has been more solid than anticipated with 54%, close to two million votes.

The vote count for the Senate and House of Representatives is considerably slower, but the Historic Pact also breaks out in Congress. The lists of the left, together with the two most traditional parties, Conservative and Liberal, lead the Senate with around 60% counted, according to the most recent bulletin of the National Registry. In the House of Representatives, the first places are also for the Historical Pact, the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party.

The left has achieved a massive result on Sunday thanks to the pull of Gustavo Petro, the favorite candidate to be the next president of Colombia, and the solidity of the environmentalist Francia Márquez. The Historic Pact, as this coalition is called, has received twice as many votes as the right and six times as many as the center. The former M-19 guerrilla complied with the forecasts and walked steadily to the vote in the first round. “We have achieved the best result of progressivism in the history of Colombia,” said Petro, elated.