{"id":511933,"date":"2026-06-21T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T23:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/abascal-congratulates-espriella-and-says-that-colombians-have-said-enough-to-narco-socialism\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T22:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:14:38","slug":"abascal-congratulates-espriella-and-says-that-colombians-have-said-enough-to-narco-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/abascal-congratulates-espriella-and-says-that-colombians-have-said-enough-to-narco-socialism\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Abascal congratulates Espriella and says that Colombians have said enough to narco-socialism&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Madrid, Jun 22.-<\/strong> The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has congratulated the far-right Abelardo de la Espriella for his victory this Sunday in the Colombian presidential elections with a narrow lead over the leftist Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, and on his X account he has stated that &#8220;Colombians have said enough to Petro&#8217;s narco-socialism&#8221;.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abascal has stated that: &#8220;Colombians have granted victory to @ABDELAESPRIELLA and have said enough to the narco-socialism of Petro and his successors. Freedom, order, truth, and the sovereignty of nations are making their way with strength in Hispanic America&#8221;.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Congratulations, dear Abelardo. Go Colombia! #FirmesPorLaPatria&#8221;, concludes Abascal&#8217;s post, which he accompanies with a photograph in which he appears with de la Espriella and a message from the latter that states: &#8220;We beat the rifle vote and vote buying and the traditional parties and corruption and the usual suspects and the guerrillas. COLOMBIA WON&#8221;.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You can read: <a href=\"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/internacionales\/petro-denuncia-irregularidades\/\">Petro denounces &#8220;many irregularities&#8221; in tight vote won by De la Espriella<\/a><\/strong><\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella, from the Defenders of the Homeland movement, won the presidential runoff election in Colombia this Sunday, obtaining 12,921,702 votes (49.65%), a narrow lead of 248,310 ballots (0.95 percentage points) over leftist Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, according to 99.65% of the preliminary count conducted by the National Registry.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cepeda, from the Historic Pact, the party of Colombian President Gustavo Petro, receives 12,673,392 votes, equivalent to 48.70%, according to the preliminary count.<\/p>n&#8221;\n\n&#8220;n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The difference between the two candidates is much narrower than the polls predicted, so it will be necessary to wait for the count to officially confirm the result.<\/p>n&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;n Madrid, Jun 22.- The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, has congratulated the far-right Abelardo de la Espriella for his victory this Sunday in the Colombian presidential elections with a narrow lead over the leftist Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, and on his X account he has stated that &#8220;Colombians have said enough to Petro&#8217;s narco-socialism&#8221;. n&#8221; &#8220;n [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":511947,"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":[44182,44081],"class_list":["post-511933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-cover","tag-de-la-espriella"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-29aZ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/6a1d3556c7532.r_d.639-754-10408.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Ana Laura L\u00f3pez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-29-at-1.45.56-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/6a1d3556c7532.r_d.639-754-10408.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511933","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\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}