BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — A former defense minister promising to build on President Alvaro Uribe’s security gains has convincingly won Colombia’s presidential elections but is headed for a runoff with a maverick outsider.
With 98 percent of voting stations reporting, Juan Manuel Santos had 47 percent against 21 percent for Antanas Mockus, a former two-time Bogota mayor who pledged clean government in a country plagued by endemic corruption.
The two will meet on June 20.
