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Pres. Petro announces candidate Ivan Cepeda won Historical Pact Primaries with over 62% of votes. teleSUR

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00:00Welcome back to Telesar English. We interrupt with some breaking information because Colombia

00:08and the Colombian Historical Pact has chosen Iván Cepeda as its presidential candidate.

00:16In this context, President Gustavo Petro took to his socials to reinforce the early results

00:23of Sunday's primaries of the Historical Pact with 64.02% of the ballot votes. Senator Iván Cepeda

00:33Castro has established himself as the Historic Pact candidate for the 2026 general elections.

00:41Petro stated that democracy prevails and must be obeyed and that now it's up to the Colombian

00:49society to decide what to do, whether to move backward or go forward. Let's learn more about

00:56the candidate Cepeda. At 63 years old, Senator Cepeda stands out for having facilitated the

01:04peace process between the Colombian government and the FARC-EP, the dialogues with the ELN

01:11and the process of bringing the Gulf climate to justice. In the midst of a historic internal

01:18consultation in Colombia in which the presidential candidate of the historic pact for next year's

01:23general election is being defined, Colombian Senator Iván Cepeda Castro was confirmed as the winner of

01:30this process with a trend that is now irreversible according to Bulletin 17 of the National Registry,

01:37the entity in charge of organizing the elections. With 34-point lead over the second-highest voted

01:44candidate, Diana Corcho Cepeda is confirmed as the candidate of the historic pact coalition made

01:50up of the Democratic poll, the Patriotic Union, the Colombian Communist Party and other political

01:57forces. With a total of 15,958 polling stations processed out of more than 19,000 set up during the

02:07voting day, according to figures provided by the registry office, and of a total of 1,428,648 voters,

02:19the senator has garnered 64.02 percent of the votes, that is equivalent to over 800,000 votes.

02:29That is the information from Colombia with a new presidential candidate. Stay tuned with

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