Colombian youth flooded the streets of Bogota Sunday night in support of presidential candidate Ivan Cepeda. The preliminary count places the far-right, Trump-backed Abelardo de la Espriella in first place at 49.66% of the votes and the progressive Cepeda at 48.7%. In a speech to his supporters Sunday night, Cepeda said the preliminary vote count was “not official nor binding” and vowed to challenge results from over 30,000 voting stations. Throughout the leadup to Sunday’s runoff election, Cepeda supporters accused the other side of fraud, vote-buying, intimidation, and foreign interference.

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