Colombia: Former VP Vargas Lleras Leads Earliest 2018 Polls

BOGOTÁ, Colombia - Germán Vargas Lleras, the former Vice-President of Colombia who stepped down two months ago as the second-in-command to President Juan Manuel Santos to focus on the 2018 election, is the frontrunner in the early presidential poll.

With just under a year to go before the May 27, 2018 election day, the electoral season is in full swing and so are the ubiquitous polls. In the latest poll, carried out by Invamer, the candidate with the strongest level of support was Vargas Lleras.

In October of 2013, Angelino Garzón Quintero, Santos' Vice-President from 2010 to 2014, said that he would not be accompanying the Social Party of National Unity (PU) candidate in his re-election campaign. Garzón Quintero served in the position until the 7th of August, 2014 when Santos' first mandate ended.

Garzón Quintero had suffered from several health issues in recent...