Iván Cepeda is the Historic Pact candidate for the presidency. With over 64 percent of the vote, his victory was a landslide against Carolina Corcho, who had just under 30 percent of the vote. Votes were also counted for Daniel Quintero, who withdrew from the race several weeks ago. He failed to secure more than 7 percent.

Since there were no polls, it was a blind election, so there was no way to estimate what Sunday's results would be. Even internal polls suggested the results between Cepeda and Corcho were close. However, in the end, the result clearly favored the Democratic Pole senator.

Since Cepeda announced his candidacy, he emerged as the left's frontrunner, riding high on the momentum of the lower court ruling against Álvaro Uribe, which was later overturned. It was precisely this judicial outcome that prompted him to run in the first place.

Furthermore, they saw him as the only one who could unite the left against Daniel Quintero, whom they viewed as an outsider to the traditional left. Although Gustavo Bolívar was leading in the polls in September, several candidates had said they were only withdrawing their candidacies to join Cepeda.

Just hours before the closing of registration for the referendum, six of the nine pre-candidates withdrew their support to the senator from the Democratic Pole. They joined forces in an attempt to defeat the former mayor of Medellín.

Amid legal uncertainties surrounding the presidential referendum, it was shaping up to be a head-to-head clash between Cepeda and Quintero. However, two weeks ago, Daniel Quintero withdrew, clearing the way for the candidate who managed to unite a large portion of the left.

Cepeda's biggest challenge will be to open his candidacy to different sectors, since this Sunday's strength as a leftist figure won't necessarily convince centrist voters and other sectors who voted for Gustavo Petro four years ago.

Furthermore, there is the legal difficulty surrounding whether Cepeda can be a candidate in the Broad Front's March referendum, as the nature of the referendum, which took place this Sunday, remains unclear.