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| Colombia vote: Santos re-elected as president | Colombia vote: Santos re-elected as president |
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| Juan Manuel Santos has won re-election in Colombia's most dramatic presidential contest in years. | Juan Manuel Santos has won re-election in Colombia's most dramatic presidential contest in years. |
| Mr Santos won nearly 51% of votes and saw off his right-wing challenger Oscar Ivan Zuluaga, who had 45%. | |
| Correspondents say the victory will be seen as an endorsement of the president's ongoing peace talks with the leftist Farc rebel group. | Correspondents say the victory will be seen as an endorsement of the president's ongoing peace talks with the leftist Farc rebel group. |
| Mr Zuluaga had said he would halt the talks unless the rebels ceased all hostilities. | Mr Zuluaga had said he would halt the talks unless the rebels ceased all hostilities. |
| Mr Santos, 62, will be inaugurated in August for a new four-year term. | Mr Santos, 62, will be inaugurated in August for a new four-year term. |
| Mr Zuluaga, who had won the first round of vote in May by a narrow margin, accepted defeat in a speech to supporters in his headquarters. | |
| He vowed to continue his fight to "defend the life and the liberty" of all Colombians. | He vowed to continue his fight to "defend the life and the liberty" of all Colombians. |
| He also thanked his political mentor, former president Alvaro Uribe, who will be sworn in as senator in August and is expected to lead the opposition to the government. | |
| Talks in Cuba | |
| With almost all the votes counted electronically, results were announced one hour after polls closed. | |
| There were no reports of major problems or irregularities, says the BBC's Arturo Wallace in Bogota. | |
| Nearly 48% of the 33 million Colombians registered to vote took part in the election. | |
| Despite concerns in Colombia about high crime and unemployment, the campaign focused on the peace negotiations with the Farc, launched by Mr Santos in November 2012. | |
| The talks, which are being held in Cuba, are aimed at ending five decades of conflict. | |
| Mr Santos expects a deal to be signed by the end of the year, with the Farc giving up their armed struggle and joining the legal political process. | |
| Government negotiators and rebel leaders have held several rounds of talks in the Cuban capital, Havana. | |
| They have agreed on three points of the agenda drawn up in 2012 - land reform, future political participation and drug trafficking, which is allegedly the main source of income for the rebels. | |
| Three other points remain to be agreed on - the rights of the victims, disarmament of the rebels and the implementation of the agreement. |