00:05The presidential election is underway in Colombia, with more than 40 million citizens
00:09expected to vote for one of the 13th candidates to lead the country for the next four years.
00:15According to the National Registry of Civil Status, voting stations will be open to voters
00:20from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. across the country and monitored by more than 1,200 international servers.
00:27More than 41.4 million Colombians are eligible to vote at over 122,000 polling stations.
00:34The Colombian Ministry of Defense has deployed 408,000 military personnel nationwide
00:40to ensure the security and custody of the 13 candidates participating.
00:44In the event that no candidate receives more than 50% of the ballot votes,
00:49a second round of voting will take place on June 21.
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