About 50 per cent of Colombians, an unprecedented number, were estimated to have cast their ballot in the presidential election on Sunday [AFP]
Published On 31 May 201031 May 2010
There are six candidates running for president [AFP]
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Pre-vote polls showed Juan Manuel Santos, the Unity Party candidate and a former defence minister, and Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus, a former mayor of the capital, Bogota, in the lead [AFP]
The election was held amid warnings from the rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), that it would disrupt voting [AFP]
In response, security was stepped up across the country, with thousands of soldiers and police put on heightened alert [AFP]
The election marks the end of Alvaro Uribe(***)s eight-year presidency [AFP]
