Francia Márquez will be Gustavo Petro’s vice-presidential formula

France Marquez will be the vice-presidential formula of Gustavo Petro, official candidate of the Historical Pact to the presidency of the Republic. She, moreover, she could also take over as Minister of the Environment if she reaches the Government.

Marquez, 39, born in Suarez, Cauca, She is a lawyer and a social leader and activist.

Her tireless activism against the environmental impacts of mining in her municipality, which forced her to move due to the threats against her.

Since then he has become a very important figure as a social leader.

His fight against mining and the defense of the environment and the territory have made her the most recognized Afro-Colombian leader in the country.

Francia Elena Márquez Mina (village of Yolombó, district of La Toma, municipality of Suárez, Cauca, 1982), says that she has always had to push the door, stand in front, say “here I am”.

Before the world and before the general public in Colombia, she became known in 2018, when she was awarded the Goldman Prize, considered the environmental Nobel, but since she was 15 years old she has been an activist who fights for the defense of her territory against the excesses of mining.

In interparty consultations reached a milestone by getting 785,215 votes, surpassing even the winner of the Esperanza Center coalition, Sergio Fajardo.

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