{"id":511929,"date":"2026-06-21T18:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/de-la-espriella-leads-cepeda-by-1-85-points-with-89-58-of-the-polling-stations-reported\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T22:10:14","slug":"de-la-espriella-leads-cepeda-by-1-85-points-with-89-58-of-the-polling-stations-reported","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/de-la-espriella-leads-cepeda-by-1-85-points-with-89-58-of-the-polling-stations-reported\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;De la Espriella leads Cepeda by 1.85 points with 89.58% of the polling stations reported&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Bogot\u00e1, Jun 21 (EFE).- <\/strong>Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella remains in the lead in the preliminary vote count for this Sunday&#8217;s presidential elections in Colombia, with a 1.85 percentage point lead over leftist Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, with 89.58% of the polling stations counted by the National Registry.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De la Espriella, from the Defenders of the Homeland movement, receives 11,580,989 votes, equivalent to 50.10%, while Cepeda, from the Historic Pact, the party of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, obtains 11,153,725 votes (48.25%).<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/segunda-vuelta-presidencial-en-colombia-2026-asi-transcurre-la-jornada-electoral-de-este-domingo\/\">Presidential runoff in Colombia 2026: this is how this Sunday&#8217;s election day is unfolding<\/a><\/strong><\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">De la Espriella, who received the most votes in the first round on May 31st, has been in the lead practically since the count began today, and with 10.5% of the polling stations left to be counted, he is ahead of Cepeda by 427,264 votes.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>n&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;n Bogot\u00e1, Jun 21 (EFE).- Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella remains in the lead in the preliminary vote count for this Sunday&#8217;s presidential elections in Colombia, with a 1.85 percentage point lead over leftist Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, with 89.58% of the polling stations counted by the National Registry. n&#8221; &#8220;n De la Espriella, from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":511931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[13631,44182],"class_list":["post-511929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-colombia","tag-cover"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29aV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/rss-efe518b58d33b237fd1a9980421a5312d4dcf53cc91w-696x464-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/rss-efe518b58d33b237fd1a9980421a5312d4dcf53cc91w-696x464-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}