Outsider Colombian conservative candidate Abelardo De La Espriella was elected the next president of Colombia, defeating far-left Senator Iván Cepeda in Sunday’s presidential runoff election.
De la Espriella, a 47-year-old lawyer and businessman supportive of President Donald Trump and nicknamed “The Tiger,” will take office at the end of outgoing Marxist President Gustavo Petro’s four-year term on August 7.
Speaking to thousands of his followers at the city of Barranquilla, the new president-elect of Colombia celebrated his electoral victory and affirmed that the presidential campaign is over — and with it “the slogans, the divisions end, the…
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