He former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010) this Sunday raised that his party, the Democratic Centermake a “Democratic coalition“With other forces for the presidential and legislative elections next year.
Uribe, who since August 1 is under house arrest after having been sentenced to twelve years in prison for the crimes of procedural fraud and bribery in criminal action, brought together this Sunday the four presidential candidates of the Democratic Center to guide the electoral campaign after the murder of the Senator Miguel Uribe Turbaywho was the fifth of that group of applicants and was outlined as the most viable option.
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“The country and you, the candidates, have been talking about the need for a great democratic coalition. It seems to me that it is fundamental“The former president said, because in the absence of nine months for the presidential elections, there are about 90 candidates throughout the political spectrum, most of them in the center and right.
Álvaro Uribe
Uribe acknowledged that “The party has to make coalitions (…) about principles for the Colombian people“, not based on the distribution of contracts and public positions.
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According to the former president, they have to be “coalitions that identify some programmatic commitments, coalitions that have a foundation in the essential principles that a project for restoration of the democratic path of the nation, a transit government needs“
“I have said transit because a government will not recover all the damage they have done to Colombia in this current government“He said about the administration of Gustavo Petrothe first leftist president of Colombia.
The doubts of the right
At the meeting were the four candidates of the democratic center, the Senators Paloma Valencia, María Fernanda Cabal, Paola Holguín and Andrés Guerraof which none seems to have enough strength to attract the right -wing electorate, and that is why Uribe has raised the possibility of the coalition.
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Uribe did not rule out the possibility of including another name to occupy the position that was vacant in the internal consultation of the Democratic Center with the death of Uribe Turbay, which occurred on August 11, two months after being seriously injured in an attack in an attack.
Last Friday the former president met at his country home in Rionegro, in the department of Antioquia (Northwest), with the former Minister of Defense and former ambassador to Washington Juan Carlos Pinzónwith whom he said he identified “Common fundamental points in security, demand for transparency, impulse to private entrepreneurship, austere and small state and social policy“
María Fernanda Cabal.
However, before the opposition of a party sector to receive Pinzón for the fact that he was minister of Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018), to whom Uribismo does not forgive him that he has signed the peace agreement with the former FARC guerrillas, Uribe today discarded that possibility, noting that whoever replaces Uribe Turbay in the internal must be someone “emerged from the breast of the party.”
In any case, the former president told his directed that it is important “that the democratic center has a candidate before the end of September“To have time to work in the campaign for the presidential ones of May 31, 2026.
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Uribe made it clear that before making a decision about “The single party candidate“And on the lists for the Senate of the Democratic Center, the opinion of Miguel Uribe Londoño must be heard, present at the meeting and father of Miguel Uribe Turbay.
“I will insist on a closed list of the Senate of the Republic“Uribe said about the participation of the Democratic Center in the legislative elections of March 8, 2026.
EFE
