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The early vote count in Sunday’s six-way presidential election in Colombia pointed toward a run-off in June, with leftist former rebel Gustavo Petro leading in a ballot held amid growing discontent over increasing inequality and inflation.

Presidential frontrunner is former leftist guerrilla Gustavo Petro in country ruled for decades by the right

As Colombians emerge from the pandemic to find increasing inequality, inflation and violence, they will pick their next president Sunday from a pool of six men who are all promising various degrees of change amid a generalized sense that the country is headed in the wrong direction

After a century of rightwing rule and decades of civil war, Gustavo Petro goes into Sunday’s election as the frontrunner