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BOGOTÁ, Colombia—Voters began voting on Sunday in a presidential election pitting six candidates against each other, among them a former left-wing guerrilla whose pledge to uphold the country’s economic order has given them . comfortable edge in the election,
gustavo petroA 62-year-old former member of the M-19 rebel group, who was disarmed in 1990, had 41% of the support in recent elections, beating Federico Gutierrez, 47, the former mayor of Medellin, who has support. President’s Ivan Dukeof the Conservative Party, and a 77-year-old populist real-estate tycoon, Rodolfo Hernandez.