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Duque brutally punished in Colombia's local elections
by Adriaan Alsema October 27, 2019
President Ivan Duque and his Democratic Center (CD) party suffered a humiliating defeat in Colombia’s’s local elections on Sunday.
The far-right party of Duque and his political patron, former President Alvaro Uribe, was virtually wiped off the political map in an electoral landslide.
Even in Medellin and the surrounding Antioquia province, the party’s stomping ground, the so-called “Uribistas” lost the race for governor and were defeated in the vast majority of municipalities.
The Uribista implosion
It took Duque and his political patron little more than a year to virtually destroy the regional power structures that took the Uribistas years to build.
More:
https://colombiareports.com/duque-brutally-punished-in-colombias-local-elections/
