Voting Matters - Columbia

Emory Ying
Mr Roddy
IHSS
10/23/18

Columbian Presidential Election

Columbia is a presidential representative democracy. This is the same as the US, where the eligible citizens vote on representatives to pass the laws. The government has three branches, judicial, executive and legal. Every four years they elect a new president.

March of 2018, Columbia held a vote for the new President. There were six candidates running for the same spot. One of the "front runners" in the election, Gustavo Petro, agreed with the previous presidents views on the civil war and peace treaty. The civil war peace treaty is a very big part of the issues in the election along with healthcare, unemployment and corruption.

The candidate who ended up winning was Ivan Duque. He won %54 of the vote. He is 41 and the youngest Columbian president out of the 32 previous presidents. Unfortunately he will also have one of the hardest presidencies. He is the first president after a five decade bloody war with drugs, gangs and mafias. Duque has also been accused of being the a former presidents, Alvaro Uribe Velez's, puppet. Uribe was president from 2002-2010. He was equally loved and hated by Columbian Citizens. Fortunately for Duque he used his campaign to prove those haters wrong, and that he can make his own decisions about what is best for his country.

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