{"id":11011,"date":"2022-06-19T12:33:13","date_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2022-06-19T12:33:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T19:33:15","slug":"presidential-candidates-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/presidential-candidates-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernandez exercise their right to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/petro-y-hernandez-colombia-1024x682.png\" alt=\"presidential candidates in colombia\" class=\"wp-image-11014\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/petro-y-hernandez-colombia-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/petro-y-hernandez-colombia-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/petro-y-hernandez-colombia-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/petro-y-hernandez-colombia-18x12.png 18w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/petro-y-hernandez-colombia-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/petro-y-hernandez-colombia-696x464.png 696w, https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/petro-y-hernandez-colombia-1068x711.png 1068w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presidential candidates in Colombia, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/petrogustavo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gustavo Petro<\/a>, candidate of the Historic Pact, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ingrodolfohdez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Rodolfo Hernandez<\/a>, for the League of Anti-Corruption Governors, cast their vote this Sunday, June 19, each in their respective polling stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the framework of the elections that are being held this Sunday, the economist and senator Gustavo Petro, who is competing in the electoral contest to be the next head of state of Colombia, registered and cast his vote in the town of Puente Aranda, Bogot\u00e1, accompanied by his wife Ver\u00f3nica Alcocer and daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The candidate showed his vote to the audience with an &quot;X&quot; over the photo of him and Francia M\u00e1rquez, his presidential candidate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He then called on the population to go out and vote en masse, and especially encouraged young people and women, because he said, &quot;they are the factor that is expected to change the history of Colombia.&quot;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For his part, the engineer and former mayor of Bucaramanga, presidential candidate Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez, went to cast his vote in the capital of Santander, in the number one position of the Santander College.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the site and accompanied by his wife Socorro Oliveros, he deposited his vote at the voting table and then showed his ballot with the &quot;X&quot; over his photo and that of his presidential candidate Marelen Castillo.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presidential candidate was accompanied by supporters who supported him at the time of the vote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>You may be interested in: <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/electoral-witnesses\/\">\"Election witnesses\" the independent watchdogs of the ballot<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los candidatos a la presidencia en Colombia, Gustavo Petro, candidato del Pacto Hist\u00f3rico, y Rodolfo Hern\u00e1ndez, por la Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupci\u00f3n efectuaron su voto este domingo 19 de junio cada uno en su respectiva casilla. En el marco de las elecciones que se celebran este domingo, el economista y senador Gustavo Petro quien compite [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":11014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[295,14,8],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11011","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colombia","8":"category-cover","9":"category-usworld"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11015,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/11015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}