Ivan Duque becomes the youngest Colombian President

BOGOTA: Conservative Ivan Duque won Colombia's presidential election on Sunday after a campaign that turned into a referendum on a landmark 2016 peace deal with Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels, which he pledged to overhaul.

Duque, 41, polled just over 54 percent to his leftist rival Gustavo Petro's



41.7 percent with nearly 97 percent of the vote counted, electoral officials said.

Duque, who will turn 42 just before taking office on 8 August will be Colombia’s youngest ever president, though his party, Democratic Center, has a coalition in Congress.