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Tue 06 Jun 2010Santos takes lead in Colombian presidential poll
COLOMBIA’S HARD-LINE former defence minister made a mockery of opinion polls to take a commanding first-round lead in a presidential election analysts had said was too close to call.
Going into Sunday’s vote, polls had Juan Manuel Santos neck-and-neck with Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus, whose progressive policies caught the imagination of the country’s urban middle class.
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