The former presidential candidate of the Conservative party, David Barguil, after having obtained third place in the consultation of the so-called ‘Team for Colombia’, he began to to work firmly in the presidential campaign of Federico Gutiérrez, who won the coalition nomination.
Your first task, after the results of this Sunday’s elections, it was hold a meeting with former president César Gaviria Trujillo, sole leader of the Liberal party.
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Sources reported that said meeting was held this Monday in Gaviria’s apartment and one of the purposes was try to explore a possible liberal support for the candidacy of Federico Gutiérrez since the first presidential round.
These approaches take place after the resignation of Óscar Iván Zuluaga to his aspiration for the Democratic Center and his adhesion to the Gutiérrez campaign in the last hours.
‘fico’ He thanked the Uribe leader for the gesture and confirmed that more support is coming from other political parties. “What is going to start to happen is that many more supporters are coming from different sectors, from the Green Party, people from the Liberals, from Cambio Radical, from the Conservatives, but above all adhesions of citizens who do not have a party”, he indicated.
presidential candidate assured that he has enough strength to win and unite the country around their cause.
“We are adding up and when you look at the results of the entire country, we won practically in all the regions in the ‘Team for Colombia’ and we also tripled the vote for candidates from other coalitions and what is shown is that there is strength and we have the ability to unite the country,” he said.
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Federico Gutiérrez could have the support of several liberal congressmen who arrived divided to the votes of the presidential consultations last Sunday.
