The candidate of the leftist Historical Pact, a 62-year-old economist who was a senator, mayor of Bogotá and belonged to the demobilized M-19 guerrilla, obtained 50.69% of the vote, beating the eccentric construction businessman Rodolfo Hernández, which reached 47.04%, according to 94.57% of the tables counted by the electoral authority.
It is the first time in the history of the South American country that a left-wing politician is elected president, breaking a tradition of right-wing and center-right rulers.
Petro will replace the current president Iván Duque from August 7 with the challenge of uniting a country of 50 million inhabitants divided for political reasons.
The left-wing politician will also have to promote the economic and social reforms to quell discontent derived from inequality and poverty, in addition to meeting the demands to reduce insecurity in cities and violence in rural areas where illegal armed groups dedicated to drug trafficking operate.
Petro’s agenda aims to strengthen the State, transform the health and pension system, and suspend oil exploration to make way for clean energy, in the face of the climate crisis.
“The country needs social justice to be able to build itself in peace (…) that is to say, less poverty, less hunger, less inequality, more rights. If you don’t do that, the violence deepens,” Petro maintains.
Source: Ambito
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