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Early Presidential Polling Makes Former Bogota Mayor Petro Frontrunner

COLOMBIA

While Colombia's next presidential election is not due to take place until May 2022, early opinion polling shows among as-yet-unannounced candidacies, the leftist former Mayor of Bogota and incumbent Senator Gustavo Petro as the early frontrunner leading former Mayor of Medellin and Governor of Antioquia Sergio Fajardo.

  • Invamer poll: First Round: Gustavo Petro (CH, left): 30.2% (-8.3), Sergio Fajardo (CC, centre): 14.5% (-1.4), Rodolfo Hernandez (Ind): 11.0% (New), Juan Manuel Galan (Liberal, centre-left): 10.0% (+5.6), Federico Guitierrez (We Believe Movement, centre-left): 6.4% (+1.2). Fieldwork: 7-9 August 2021. Sample size: 1,008. Chgs w/ April 2021.
  • Invamer poll: Second round Petro (CH, left): 53% (-)Fajardo (CC, centre): 44% (+2), Blank: 3% (-2) (+/- vs. April 2021) Fieldwork: 7-9 August 2021. Sample size: 1,008
  • Incumbent President Ivan Duque Marquez is term limited to a single four-year stint in office and therefore cannot run again.

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