Local Election Results in Colombia Offer a Challenge for President Petro

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Issue Oct 25-31 2023: On October 29, 2023, Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s allies largely lost in municipal and provincial elections. The result was widely proclaimed a clear sign of the broad and growing discontent with his left-leaning government and does not bode well for his promised reforms to the health system and labor relations. Governorships were mostly won by candidates from Colombia’s traditional parties of the center and the right, which were beaten by Petro in last year’s presidential election, and which lost to independent candidates in the last regional elections four years ago. Political analysts around the region offered an abundance of analysis.

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