Factbox - Candidates in Colombia's presidential election


  • World
  • Thursday, 22 May 2014

(Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and right-wing economist Oscar Ivan Zuluaga go into Sunday's presidential election neck-and-neck in polls, meaning a second-round runoff in June is likely. [ID:nL1N0O6145]

The main campaign issue has been peace talks with Marxist guerrillas that Santos launched in 2012 in hope of ending a 50-year civil war. Zuluaga says he is offering the rebels too much.

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