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Hard number: A strong day for Colombia’s center-right

​Share of Colombian voters who participated in Sunday's right-wing primary.

Share of Colombian voters who participated in Sunday's right-wing primary.

Natalie Johnson

Center-right Colombian Sen. Paloma Valencia will head into May’s presidential election with some momentum, after 83% of voters opted to vote in the right-wing primary on Sunday – which she won comfortably. Left-wing Sen. Iván Cepeda and conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella will be her biggest rivals come the election.

There was also a congressional vote in Colombia yesterday, one that was split: neither President Gustavo Petro’s Historic Pact, a leftist group, nor the main opposition Democratic Center won an outright majority.

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