Up to 41 million voters will choose between frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella and his rival Ivan Cepeda.
This combination of pictures created on June 20, 2026 shows Colombia’s presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella (L), of the political movement Defensores de la Patria, speaking during an interview with AFP in Bogota on February 11, 2026, and Colombia’s presidential candidate for the Pacto Historico party, Ivan Cepeda, looking on during a press conference in Bogota, on June 1, 2026, the day after the presidential election. Colombians vote on June 21, 2026 in a presidential runoff pitting a hard-right opera-singer-turned-lawyer against a leftist senator, an election with stark consequences for the country’s stumbling peace process with armed groups and strained ties with Washington.
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