Far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella has surprisingly taken the lead in Colombia's presidential election first round, defying polls and setting up an institutional crisis as leftist candidate Iván Cepeda contests the results. A runoff is scheduled for June 21.

<p> <img alt="A few hours after polls closed, President Gustavo Petro publicly rejected the provisional results and denounced without evidence a variation in the electoral roll of around 800,000 voters" height="80" src="https://en.mercopress.com/data/cache/noticias/110314/100x80/cola.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0 12px 6px 0; border: 1px solid #333;" width="100" /> Far-right lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella took first place in the first round of the Colombian presidential...