[ June 1, 2026 ]
The pundits didn’t expect this, but a right-wing candidate came in first in Colombia’s presidential election. A far-right candidate forced a runoff in the Colombia’s presidential election on Sunday, in what could herald another gain for the right-wing wave sweeping elections across Latin America, according to preliminary official results. The candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella, will now go head to head against Iván Cepeda, a senator from the left-wing party of the country’s outgoing president, Gustavo Petro. Mr. De La Espriella, whose rise came late in the campaign, resembles a new breed of flashy populist leaders in Latin America like El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele who share President Trump’s hard-line approach to crime and have pledged to apply it to drug traffickers. With more than 99 percent of the votes counted, results released by the national civil registry revealed an electorate split down the middle. Mr. De La Espriella got 44.73 percent of the vote, and Mr. Cepeda 40.91 percent. Because neither candidate received more than 50 percent, a runoff will be held on June 21. (New York Times.)
The Trump supporting celebrity lawyer Abelardo De La Espriella came out ahead of the Marxist Iván Cepeda in the first round of Colombia’s presidential election. Both De La Espriella and Cepeda will now face off in a runoff election on June 21st.
De La Espriella will likely win the runoff, since most of the voters who supported the other Centrist and Conservative candidates will vote for him. If De La Espriella becomes Colombia’s next president, it will mark another defeat for the radical Left in Latin America. Conservative candidates are being elected all over Latin America, including in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras, and Bolivia.
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To make matters even better, is that Abelardo de La Espriella will reverse all of the anti-Israel policies of the pro-Palestinian Marxist thug Gustavo Petro, who suspended all diplomatic relations with Israel over it’s war with Hamas. So De La Espriella’s win is a huge victory for Colombia, the United States and Israel, and a major loss for China, Iran, and the Palestinian Authority.
JUST IN: “The Tiger” Abelardo de la Espriella wins the most votes in Colombia’s first round & advances to the presidential runoff.
82% chance he’s Colombia’s next president. pic.twitter.com/VQ8e1oe7jY
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) June 1, 2026
Después de meses recorriendo Colombia, escuchando a millones de compatriotas y luchando por un milagro para nuestra patria en el que creo profundamente, deposité mi voto.
Lo hice con fe en Dios, con amor por Colombia y con la tranquilidad de haberlo dado todo.
Ahora la decisión… pic.twitter.com/zixlLgYCd6
— Abelardo De La Espriella (@ABDELAESPRIELLA) May 31, 2026
Trump Effect; Pro-Trump outsider wins Colombia vote and heads to runoff
By The Japan Times, May 31st, 2026
Celebrity lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella unexpectedly topped the first round of Colombia’s presidential vote, setting up another highly polarized Latin American election.
The conservative outsider is in a strong position to become the nation’s next president when he faces leftist Sen. Ivan Cepeda, an ally of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, in a June 21 runoff.
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