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Colombia\u2019s president-elect suspended the ongoing transition process with President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday, accusing the outgoing leader of plotting a coup to stay in power.<\/p>\n

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Petro denied the legitimacy of President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella\u2019s victory in the June 21 runoff election on Monday, claiming that Espriella\u2019s defeat of the left-wing candidate, Senator Iv\u00e1n Cepeda, was fraudulent, according to the Associated Press (AP). <\/span>Right-wing candidate Espriella, who was endorsed by President Donald Trump, defeated Cepeda by a narrow margin of one percent. Petro was the first leftist candidate elected president in Colombia\u2019s history. (RELATED: \u2018I Am The Tiger\u2019: Trump-Backed US Citizen Set To Take Power In Colombia, Wants Mega Prisons Filled With Thugs)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Espriella alleged Tuesday that Petro and Cepeda were attempting to \u201ccling to power at all costs\u201d via \u201ca coup de etat\u201d in a video posted online, the AP reported. \u201cDemocracy must be respected, and the will of the people must be defended,\u201d Espriella wrote, according to a translation.<\/p>\n

Petro alleged there was \u201cevidence of an electoral fraud via algorithms and with prohibited foreign financing in our constitution,\u201d in a Monday post on X, according to a translation.\u00a0\u201cWe have suffered the hardest blow to national sovereignty since the Spanish reconquest during the years of the Patria Boba.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Espriella said he was committed to the country\u2019s consitition. \u201cI reiterate my commitment to the Constitution, the Rule of Law, and the mandate that millions of citizens expressed freely at the ballot box,\u201d he wrote, according to a translation. \u201cI call on the institutions, the Public Force, the international community, and all Colombians to remain steadfast in defending democracy and constitutional order.\u201d (RELATED: Trump Pulls Up To Turkey For High-Stakes Meeting With NATO Allies)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The presidential inauguration is set to take place Aug. 7. During the transition, the outgoing administration provides the information necessary to run the government to the incoming administration, according to the AP.<\/p>\n

Colombia\u2019s finance minister, Germ\u00e1n \u00c1vila, who also acts as the Petro administration\u2019s transition coordinator, ordered the suspension of the transition process after Espriella\u2019s statement, the AP reported. \u00c1vila took aim at statements from people in Espriella\u2019s transition team in a televised address, saying Petro\u2019s administration has \u201cnothing to hide.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Espriella focused on crime and the economy during his campaign, promising to reverse the policies of Petro and go after drug cartels and violent gangs. He has a history in Columbia as a lawyer and businessman, Reuters reported. Cepeda\u2019s family were exiled when he was young and lived in the now-defunct communist Czechoslovakia and later Cuba, according to The Bogota Post. He was reportedly a communist in his youth but has shifted toward social policy since.<\/p>\n

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