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Weekly Report - 24 May 2018 (WR-18-20)

COLOMBIA: Fraud allegations mark close of campaigning

“Mr [Nicolás] Maduro was re-elected in Venezuela today in an electoral process that is as fraudulent as that being carried out here in Colombia”. With these remarks Gustavo Petro, the presidential candidate of the Colombia Humana leftist opposition coalition, accused Colombia’s electoral authorities (Registraduría) of seeking to rig the election against him on 27 May. The accusations by Petro, who lies second in voting intention polls behind Iván Duque, the presidential candidate of the right-wing opposition Centro Democrático (CD), came at the close of the electoral campaign period. They have shaken up the campaign although it is still not clear what sort of impact they could have.

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