Carlos Fernando Galán, from New Liberalism, is elected mayor of Bogotá

Former senator Carlos Fernando Galán, from the New Liberalism party, is virtually elected mayor of Bogotá after obtaining 1,299,757 votes, equivalent to 48.84% in the local and regional elections held this Sunday in Colombiaaccording to data from the National Registry.

With 87.77% of the votes counted, Prince surpasses the independent Juan Daniel Oviedowho obtained 536,833 votes (20.17%) and also a former senator Gustavo Bolívarof the governing coalition Historical Pactwhich totals 500,169 votes (18.8%).

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These results represent a defeat for Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s coalitionwhich has one of its major electoral strongholds in Bogotá, a city of which he himself was mayor.

Galán thus confirms the favoritism that voting intention polls gave him and avoid going to a second round, scheduled only for Bogotásince it obtains more than 40% of the votes and an advantage of more than ten percentage points over the second place, in this case Oviedo.

The virtual mayor-elect is the son of liberal politician Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, murdered in August 1989 by drug trafficking mafias. when he emerged as the favorite to win the Colombian presidency in the 1990 elections.

Almost 39 million Colombians were called to the polls today to elect 1,102 mayors and 32 governors, as well as members of municipal councils, departmental assemblies and Local Administrative Councils (JAL).

Source: Elcomercio

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