The first round confirmed the country's polarization and left De la Espriella with an advantage heading into a runoff in which centrist votes will be decisive.

With days remaining before the runoff election, the growing number of undecided voters reveals that electoral polarization does not reflect Peru’s deep political and social fragmentation.

The shockwave produced by the first round of the presidential election was seismic. There was not a single political assumption left unquestioned. The message...

The final stretch of the Colombian presidential campaign has left the country caught between polarisation, political violence and rhetoric that undermines democratic coexistence.

Faced with an unmanageable electoral offering and an institutional system in crisis, gamification played an educational role that the formal system and the media have failed to fulfill, encouraging youth participation in voting.

The scenarios that open up depend on how much the political system can absorb the discontent arising from the result of this first presidential election.