Former guerrilla Gustavo Petro defeated assholish populist outsider Rodolfo Hernández in Colombia’s runoff election Sunda, capturing more than 50 percent of the vote with 99.45% counted, ensuring he would become the first ever leftist president in the South American nation’s turbulent 200 year history, the Associated Press reports. Petro’s lead in the May first round had freaked out Colombian Conservatives, with third place Conservative candidate Federico Gutierrez asking his fans to consolidate support around Hernández, calling Petro “a danger for democracy.”
Right wingers have been taking a beating in South American elections recently, with Chile and Peru’s presidencies now occupied by insurgent leftists taking down established Conservative candidates over the last year. MAGA Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is already freaking out and taking steps to “Stop the Steal” well ahead of an October election he is widely expected to lose pretty badly to leftist former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.