Anti-Peace Deal Candidate Wins Colombian Presidential Primary
- Uribe ally Duque’s party won biggest number of congress seats
- Leftist Gustavo Petro also won landslide in other primary
Ivan Duque.
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The Colombian peso rallied the most in emerging markets after Ivan Duque, a candidate viewed as friendly toward investors, won a presidential primary by a landslide while his party picked up the largest number of seats in congress.
With 99 percent of polling stations reported, Senator Duque’s Democratic Center party was on course to win 19 seats in the 108-member senate, and 32 in the lower house. Duque, an ally of former President Alvaro Uribe, opposed the recent peace accord with Marxist rebels and is pledging to slash taxes on companies.