Gustavo Petro, a former rebel fighter who has promised profound social and economic change, has won Colombia’s presidency.
Petro’s win in Sunday’s presidential runoff election will make him the country’s first left-wing president.
He won 50.4 percent of the vote, while his rival Rodolfo Hernandez, a construction magnate, had 47.3 percent.
“As of today, Colombia is changing, a real change that guides us to one of our aims: the politics of love … of understanding and dialogue,” a jubilant Petro told his supporters in the Colombian capital, Bogota.

Al Jazeera’s Teresa Bo reports from Bogota, Colombia.

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