Colombia elects first Black woman VP Francia Marquez, who vows to stand for 'nobodies'
BOGOTA, June 20 (Reuters) - Francia Marquez, a single mother, and former housekeeper, will be Colombia's first Black woman vice president after a historic vote on Sunday saw the Andean country pick its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro.
Marquez and Petro won 50.4% of the vote in Sunday's election.
In front of a background emblazoned with the phrase "change is unstoppable," Marquez thanked supporters from across Colombia for assisting her and Petro's campaign in a speech broadcast from Bogota.
"After 214 years we have achieved a government of the people, a popular government, a government of people with calloused hands ... the government of the nobodies of Colombia," she said.
Colombia's new vice president-elect hails from the municipality of Suarez, a rural area of Colombia's Cauca province. Around 80% of Cauca's population lives in some form of poverty.
Credit:reuters.com
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