Criminal defense lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella led Colombia’s presidential first round with 43.74%, forcing a June 21 runoff against Iván Cepeda despite polls that had favoured the left.
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Bolivia’s capital under siege as Paz faces worst political crisis in 40 years
Bolivia’s President Rodrigo Paz faces road blockades paralyzing La Paz, draining over $50 million from the economy daily and blocking emergency vehicles from hospitals, six months after his historic election.
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Peru’s Fujimori and Sánchez head to June 7 runoff after fractured first round
Peru confirmed a Fujimori-Sánchez presidential runoff for June 7, with over 70% of April’s first-round voters having backed neither candidate.
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BJP wins West Bengal for the first time, but nine million lost their vote
Modi’s party captured 207 of 293 seats in Bengal — the first right-wing majority in the state since independence — while election monitors documented the largest single-state voter-roll purge in Indian electoral history.
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Peter Magyar ends Orbán’s sixteen-year grip on Hungary
With 53.6 percent of the vote and a two-thirds parliamentary majority, Tisza delivered the most consequential electoral result Hungary has seen since the fall of communism.