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after winning a second mr petro won 51% of vote, to 47% for his right wing opponent, rodolfo hernandez. mr petro described the result as a day ofjoy for the colombian people. let s get you live pictures from bogota where we expect the president elect to come out and speak. that s what we re counting down to, this is the scene in the capital city were crowds are waiting for him. our correspondence, katie watson, is in columbia and sent us this. the atmosphere and gustavo petro s hq atmosphere and gustavo petro s h0 is a lecturer at. people almost didn t believe it. it was a nailbiter until the and. this is an historic bow in so many ways, that s often used as a cliche but it s true that he is the first leftist president that colombia has ever had. and the first black vice president colombia has had, testament to