Colombians voted for a successor to President Alvaro Uribe on Sunday in what was expected to be a rout favoring a former defense minister who oversaw a major weakening of leftist rebels.
Juan Manuel Santos had a 37-point advantage in pre-election polls over political outsider and former Bogota Mayor Antanas Mockus.
Santos won 47 percent of the vote in the May 30 first round _ just shy of the simple majority needed for victory. He and Mockus had been neck-and-neck in some surveys but a series of gaffes torpedoed Mockus' eccentric campaign.
Although reports of voting irregularities were few, a roadside bomb ripped apart a truck carrying police on a …
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