Abelardo de la Espriella won the presidential runoff with 49.66% of the vote against 48.70% for Iván Cepeda, according to the official preliminary count by the Registraduría.
The results show that De la Espriella obtained 12,958,415 votes and Cepeda 12,708,158, with a margin of 250,257 ballots. The overseas vote proved decisive, as the winner secured 63.77% of ballots cast outside the country.
Natalia Gutiérrez, president of the Consejo Gremial, endorsed the call for national unity and requested an orderly transition between the outgoing and incoming governments. "That voice must be respected by all political and social sectors," she stated.
Markets reacted with gains. The Colombian Stock Exchange advanced, Ecopetrol shares rose more than 9% in international trading, and the peso strengthened against the dollar. Country risk fell 13.80 basis points to 139.16.
U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated De la Espriella on Truth Social and expressed his desire to build a solid relationship between the two nations. The losing candidate, Iván Cepeda, announced that his coalition filed 57,189 claims and conditioned recognition of the results on progress in the official scrutiny.
