The Latest: First results from Colombian vote trickling in
Associated Press
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BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) The Latest on Colombia's presidential election (all times local):
4:30 p.m.
Results from Colombia's first presidential election since the signing of an historic peace accord are trickling in Sunday following a contentious campaign in which voters no longer focused on defeating leftist rebels weighed issues corruption, inequality and crime.
Preliminary tallies with just 12 percent of polling stations reporting put former senator Ivan Duque in first place with about 42 percent of the vote. The race for second place was tight between leftist Gustavo Petro, with 24 percent, and former Medellin mayor Sergio Fajardo, who has 21 percent.
Duque, the conservative protege of former President Alvaro Uribe, the chief critic of the peace deal, has led polls throughout the campaign and is promising to amend important aspects of the accord like ensuring that drug trafficking is not an amnestied crime.
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