This time of elections with a highly polarized climate, adds the debate on the position of the vice-presidential formula names, alliances and commitments, disorder, strategy, fake news?
Colombia News.
Less than 3 months before the presidential elections in Colombia, the candidates are looking for their vice-presidential formula, which has led to the debate on whether this position works, if it is to “pay favors” or if it should or should even be reconsidered.
Also, because of the way several candidates are currently handling the issue of who will join them in that position.
Sergio Farjado: “I don’t know who from my campaign”
They throw names on twitter, hints, “wrong” information and so on. Is it part of strategy or just bad communication?
In the case of the candidate Sergio Fajardo, before he appointed the former Minister of the Environment, Luis Gilberto Murillo, Francia Márquez said “no, thanks” to the proposal that he assured came from his campaign.
According to Márquez, they called her to be the center’s vice-presidential formula.
Good afternoon France. I don’t know who from my campaign gave you that invitation, but it was never considered. My formula is Luis Gilberto Murillo great man. This does not prevent me from congratulating you on your campaign and extraordinary vote. https://t.co/Fz0QjV48t1
– Sergio Fajardo (@sergio_fajardo) March 17, 2022
However, once the center announced Murillo’s name for that position, Fajardo himself came out to respond publicly that he had not taken the leader from Cauca into account for that position.
Someone from his campaign then came out to declare that they had thought about Márquez.
Others believe that it could also have been a strategy on the other side to pressure the Historic Pact campaign, because as the surprise candidate said in the March 13 elections, “the word is honored.”
with Petro
This Friday, the name of Francia Márquez became almost officially linked as Gustavo Petro’s vice-presidential formula, as announced Gustavo Bolivar and Alexander López Maya, re-elected in Congress.
? France Márquez formulates Gustavo Petro’s vice-presidential formula?, Fico Gutiérrez is still looking slowly for his vice-presidential formula and Radical Change continues to approach the candidates to define their support. Find out with our #PoliticalThermometer ⬇ pic.twitter.com/kw9WQ4fFRx
— RCN News (@NoticiasRCN) March 18, 2022
For her, it is important to “continue for change” with the Historical Pact movement to which the Human Colombia candidate belongs.
Followers of the caucana believe that she should not be vice president, “it is a very little position for her.” Many even ask that she be the Minister of Defense in a hypothetical case that Petro wins.
And it is that it is questioned what the Vice Presidency of the Republic serves the country for.
Others point out that as vice president, Márquez can hold other positions as well.
Campaign gossip?
Since several candidates for the Presidency of the Republic have not announced who will be their vice-presidential formula, social networks have been filled with names and gossip? as a campaign strategy, it can also be.
Sergio Fajardo was also linked to the well-known environmental activist Brigitte Baptiste, who has shown her affinity with the Antioquian and his environmental proposals.
.@Brigittelgb is a crucial voice for Colombia. On this path that we are starting, we are proud to have your support so that you question us, debate us and build a country in which the environment, at last! have a central role. It is a commitment that we have together with @LuisGMurillo. https://t.co/QFrB8ABMyU
– Sergio Fajardo (@sergio_fajardo) March 18, 2022
The rector of the EAN University was pointed out as being the option of the Esperanza Center, and its leader, once again, came out “to clarify.”
Baptiste also stated that he had not received any proposals.
On the other hand, Fico Gutiérrez continues the search for his vice-presidential formula, apparently in no hurry.
And it has not been saved from those ‘network gossip’ and among journalists.
Vanessa De la Torre said that they told her, that they offered her the vice presidency to her FM colleague, Luis Carlos Vélez.
Given this, Velez replied that this rumor was false. “It’s a lie” and another journalist joined the discussion, who assures if there is a proposal for Velez.
Luis Carlos denies the offer, and he is believed, but his name is still on the table, although he has not been informed https://t.co/Lyn8ciZeUO
– Alejandro Pino Calad (@PinoCalad) March 18, 2022
Rodolfo Hernández had Paola Ochoa, a Blu Radio panelist, as formula, but she gave up that possibility a few days later alleging personal problems.
For now, it seems that the issue of the vice-presidential formulas is in a debate that does little to what should be the real issue of the country’s proposal, clear responses from the candidates.
The Vice Presidency
“The selection of a vice president says a lot about the qualities of the presidential candidate who chooses him. It shows that there is clarity about the intellectual characteristics, experience, good judgment, that this person must have because at any time he can occupy the Presidency of the Republic », says the expert in political science, Fernando Cepeda Ulloa.
For this reason, many have criticized this kind of ‘recocha’ of electoral campaigns on this issue.
And it is that although for many citizens this is just a formality, the reality is that it is an issue of political weight that can even impact the image and governability of whoever presides over the country.
By next week, these formulas should be defined.
In addition, it is a position that is paid with public resources from there, which must be the identity of a candidate who meets certain characteristics.
A position created since the Constitution of 1830.
The Public Function establishes that to aspire to this position, you must be:
What are the requirements to be vice president in Colombia?
- Being Colombian by birth
- having turned forty
- Reside in the country six years before the election, but if, for example, he was abroad for service of the Republic, it is counted.
Whoever is vice president will earn more than 25 million pesos a month, that is his salary. In addition to other state benefits such as vehicle allocation, travel expenses and others.
He may be assigned to missions or special assignments by the President, and appointed to any position in the Executive Branch.
How well the person who occupies that chair performs largely depends on the ideological affinity, vision of the country and proposals that the presidential candidates have with their vice-presidential formula.
