How and when will the second round be?
Article 190 of the Political Constitution establishes that the presidential candidate must get half plus one of the votes to win in the first round. “The President of the Republic will be elected for a period of four years, by half plus one of the votes that, secretly and directly, are deposited by the citizens on the date and with the formalities determined by law.”
If the result of the elections four years ago, in which 19.6 million people participated, is taken into account, more than 9.8 million votes would be needed for one of the presidential candidates to win in the first round.
As no candidate succeeded, as has happened in Colombia in the last three presidential elections, the Constitution orders that “a new vote will be held three weeks later, in which only the two candidates who have obtained the highest will participate. votes”.
This time, the second round is scheduled for Sunday, June 19. In these elections, the person who obtains the highest number of votes will be declared President.
The constitution says that in the event of the death or permanent physical disability of one of the two candidates with the majority of votes, their party or political movement may register a new candidate for the second round.
“If he does not do so or if the absence is due to another cause, the person who obtained the third vote will replace him; and so on successively and in descending order. If the absence occurs less than two weeks before the second round, it will be postponed for fifteen days. Read the full article here.
