BOGOTA, June 24 (NNN-TELESUR) — The winning candidate of the presidential elections in Colombia, Gustavo Petro, received Thursday the credential as president of Colombia.
This day also marked his first meeting with the outgoing president, Iván Duque, to establish the mechanisms of the transition to the new government, which will be installed next August.
The National Registrar, Alexander Vega, and the National Electoral Council gave Gustavo Petro the credential that accredited him as the presidential election winner, accompanied by Francia Márquez, who will occupy the vice presidency of the South American nation.
The ceremony took place after Vega delivered on Tuesday the balance of the electoral process that took place last Sunday, which left as a winner the now president-elect, Gustavo Petro, and indicated that the difference between the pre-count and the scrutiny was very little, which ratifies the results of the elections in the second-round.
He confirmed that Petro got 11,291,986 votes, against the 10,604,337 of his contender, Rodolfo Hernandez. — NNN-TELESUR
