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Left-wing candidate concedes Colombia election

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Leftist candidate Ivan Cepeda on Wednesday conceded victory in the tightly fought presidential election won by hard-right rival Abelardo de la Espriella.

Cepeda lost Sunday’s runoff by less than one percentage point, and has distanced himself from post-election protests.

After earlier saying he would wait for the vote count to finish, he told reporters that he had “decided to accept the result emerging from that process.”

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