An ex-rebel and a magnate likened to Donald Trump lead the first round of the presidential election.
Colombia's next president will be a choice between a former leftist rebel and a man dubbed the country's Trump after Sunday's first round of voting.
If Mr Petro, 62, wins he will be the first left-wing president in the country's history. He has promised to fix the country's deep inequalities and switch its reliance on fossil fuels to clean technology. Whoever wins next month will have to grapple with discontent over increasing inequality and inflation, as well as the legacy of the bloody war between leftist guerrillas and the state which a 2016 peace agreement was meant to end.
Mr Petro's running mate, the environmentalist Francia Márquez, hopes to become the nation's first black vice-president.
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