Adriaan Alsema

Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella won the first round of Colombia’s presidential election and will face leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda in a run-off vote on June 21, according to the preliminary count. With 89% of the votes counted, De la Espriella received the support of 44% of Colombia’s voters. Cepeda received 41% of the […]

Colombia’s leftist presidential candidate, Senator Ivan Cepeda, said Sunday that he does not accept the preliminary results of the first round election that surprisingly saw far-right attorney Abelardo de la Espriella come out on top. In a speech before supporters, Cepeda called on electoral authorities to scrutinize the allegedly last-minute registry of hundreds of thousands […]

The runner-up in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election, Senator Ivan Cepeda, backtracked on allegations that the surprise success of far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella was due to fraud. At a press conference, Cepeda said that “we have not found any evidence of incidents that would… be of such a nature or severity […]

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said Tuesday that he can prove that the electoral census was inflated with more than 885,000 voter ahead of the first round on the presidential election. In a post on social media platform X, Petro said his decision to reject the results of the preliminary count presented by the National Registry’s […]

US President Donald Trump endorsed far-right presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella ahead of the second round of Colombia’s election. In a post on his Truth Social website, Trump congratulated De la Espriella for his victory in the first round, which surprisingly made the lawyer the frontrunner in the race. According to the US president, […]

Colombia’s top electoral authority, the National Electoral Council (CNE), confirmed the outcome of the presidential election’s first round after finding no evidence of the fraud alleged by outgoing President Gustavo Petro. In a ruling that followed the scrutiny of votes, the CNE confirmed that far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella and leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda […]

Leftist presidential candidate, Senator Ivan Cepeda, appointed an attorney to lead investigations into alleged vote-buying by his opponent, the far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella. In a press conference, Cepeda said Saturday that his campaign received information about “possible financial irregularities and illegal activities on the part of Mr. De la Espriella’s campaign.” The senator […]

The Superior Court of Bogota gave far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella 24 hours to stop using national symbols in his presidential campaign. The court additionally told De la Espriella to stop using the word “patria” (homeland) in his propaganda, effectively banning the far-right campaign’s name, “Defensores de la patria” (Defenders of the homeland), and […]

A member of the Accusations Committee of Colombia’s Congress ordered the suspension of President Gustavo Petro, bypassing all steps that would give such a decision legal validity. In a ruling, House Representative Gloria Arizabaleta ordered “the provisional suspension of Mr. Gustavo Francisco Petro Urrego from his position as president” until June 21 at 4PM. The […]

The leftist candidate in Colombia’s election race, Senator Ivan Cepeda, announced a criminal complaint against his far-right opponent for allegedly belonging to the now-defunct paramilitary organization AUC. In a press conference, Cepeda said that his team filed a criminal complaint before the Prosecutor General’s Office and the International Criminal Court to investigate whether De la […]