In the Plazoleta de San Francisco in downtown Cali, the presidential candidate Gustavo Petro closed the campaign in the capital of Valle, to ten of the elections in the first round.
Despite the rain that fell on the city, Petro had the opportunity to address his followers, in the middle of a strict security plan in your environment. In his speech he referred to the versions that are circulating from the left political sector about a possible postponement of the elections.
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The candidate for the house of Nariño indicated that with peace, democracy and a just life, any attempt to suspend the presidential elections in Colombia will fail.
“Here and the decision of Colombian society is to build peace, democracy and a just life; keeping us united, any attempt by the delusional to suspend the elections in Colombia they will fail, they will be defeated, they will not pass”, Petro pointed out.
It is worth mentioning that the first to make this version public was Senator Luis Fernando Velascowho on his Twitter account made him a appealed to the high courts to avoid a postponement of the elections.
gentlemen presidents @CorteSupremaJ @councilofstate Y @CConstitucional informed sources insist on the suspension of the final registrar 11 days after the elections, generating electoral instability, we trust you to defend the transparency of the May 29 elections
– Luis Fernando Velasco Chaves ? (@velascoluisf) May 19, 2022
However, the Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios, stated that it is not true that the National Government is thinking of appointing an ad hoc registrar to change the date of the presidential elections.
The candidate of the Historical Pact invited the people of Cali to be part of the change, he also affirmed that in his team it can be said that education is more important than prisons.
“Not all the rifles in Colombia, legal or illegal together, could achieve the change that today millions of people can make with effort, (…) Here we can say that a pen is more important than a rifle, a book is much more important I have bought war planes or tanks to bombard the town itself,” he stressed.
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It is worth mentioning that many women from Valle del Cauca were waiting for the speech of the vice-presidential formula of the Historical Pact, Francia Márquez, whom received with the choir: Revolution.
In his speech, Márquez, indicated that the Petro government will not kill young people, so he called on them not to let their dreams be snatched away and, in the same way, He asked them to fight like they did last year, in the national strike.
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In his speech he invited the youth to go with the social explosion to the polls.
“Young people, don’t let your dreams be taken away, fight for them, just as they fought last year, fight at the polls (…) Let’s go with the social explosion to the polls to create a policy for life”, Francia Marquez said.
