Historical Pact wins Colombian Senate elections

Bogota, Mar 9 (Prensa Latina) The victory achieved by the Pacto Historico (Historical Pact) alliance in the Colombian Senate elections can be described as overwhelming, as evidenced by its 4,397,000 votes, some two million more than in 2022.

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With 22.75 percent of the total, this bloc would guarantee approximately 25 seats in the Senate, surpassing the 17 seats that the Centro Democratico (Democratic Center) party, led by former President Alvaro Uribe (2018-2022), would obtain.

This party came second with 3,016,000 votes (15.6 percent).

If the Attorney General’s Office confirms these results, the first of these political associations would increase the number of seats in the Senate by five, and the second by four.

The Pacto Historico’s success was celebrated almost immediately by Ivan Cepeda, the presidential candidate for that group.

Cepeda said this force represents “the government of agrarian reform, labor reform, pension reform (…), which dignifies the people who are in our hearts.”

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