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Presidential landslide for conservative Santos (Urgent)

Jun 20, 2010, 23:07 GMT

Bogota - Conservative candidate Juan Manuel Santos won Colombia's presidential runoff by a landslide on Sunday.

With nearly 60 per cent of the vote counted, he had 69 per cent of the vote, against fellow finalist Antanas Mockus, a former Bogota mayor who had been a huge underdog in the second-round vote.



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