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Polls open for historic elections in Colombia

Colombia, elecciones, votación, inicio
Bogotá, Jun 19 (Prensa Latina) The polls for the second round of the presidential elections in Colombia opened today at 08:00 local time.

A total of 39 million two thousand 239 citizens are entitled to choose between the formula of the Historical Pact, made up of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, and the binomial of the League of Anticorruption Governors, made up of Rodolfo Hernández and Merelen Castillo.

“The day has come in Colombia when the possibility of a historic change in the political and social life of the country opens up, because Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez have a real chance of winning at the end of this day,” he told Prensa Latina. Democratic Pole senator Iván Cepeda.

The renowned politician invited citizens to express themselves at the polls in a democratic and serene manner.

In addition, so that “their will is respected in the count that the competent state bodies must carry out in this matter so that at the end of the day we can celebrate that Colombia has the first alternative, popular and democratic government in its republican history,” he said.

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