According to the former government officials of Gustavo Petro, in the Government Party there are obstacles to different applications.
Collage of screenshots taken from the videos published by the former director of the DPS Gustavo Bolívar and the former environmental minister Susana Muhamad in his social networks.
The former director of the Department for Social Prosperity (DPS) Gustavo Bolívar said that Human Colombia, Government Party and one of the associates in the official Coalition Historical Pact, has created “obstacles” that make the electoral race difficult for 2026. Bolívar, also former senator, is one of the presidential candidates of the community.
The directives of Colombia Human convened an “Extraordinary National Assembly” on August 17 and 18. The meeting concluded with A reform to the statutes and the internal electoral process of the party, in order to define play rules for candidates and candidates for Congress. In addition, several key dates for the process were defined.
Colombia Human intends to discuss its candidates for the Capitol between August 23 and 25 with Intermunicipal Assemblies and Bogotá, as well as with a plenary of the entire National Corporation. But before, between August 13 and 19, the inscriptions of those who wanted to obtain a candidacy advancedaccording to a resolution of August 13.
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The document, of eleven pages, regulated the accreditation instructions prior to the candidates, that they will also participate in the consultation with which the historical pact wants to define its only representative in the presidential card next year. The association will go to the polls on October 26 of this year, in preparation for the next elections.
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To register in human Colombia, for example, you must “have a social, community or media work recognized at regional, national or international level“, According to the guidelines that appear in the resolution. In addition, you must have a” support “that is reflected in minimum two hundred firms for the camera of representatives and five hundred for the Senate.
Other “support” options may be At least ten councilors, councilors, deputies or congressmen of Colombia Human. The candidacy cannot “have participated in national or territorial elections with the endorsement of opposition parties to the national government” in the last eight years.
In total, Colombia Human established eight requirements, in addition to documents such as a copy of the card and resume. After the presentation of documents, The first filter will be an accreditation committee and electoral guarantees, and the second, “consensus proposals” That, if not approved, they will go to a new consultation with the party delegations.
The entire bureaucracy in between seems to have bothered several sectors of the community, according to two of their most visible faces: Former Director Gustavo Bolívar and the former Minister of Susana Muhamadwho will face Daniel Quintero and other members of the Historical Pact in the October 26 consultation for a presidential candidacy.
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Bolívar expressed through his X account that “The directives of Colombia Human changed an article of the statutes to favor their candidacies, leaving the bases at a disadvantage”. He accompanied his claim with a four -minute video, but neither in his trill nor in the audiovisual piece he detailed to what modification he was referring to.
The former congressman warned that if the historical pact does not arrive with a strong bench to Congress from next year, The right could make “the counter -reforms” that knock down legislative victories of President Gustavo Petrosuch as pension or labor reform. “They see us weak, with a small bench, and counteract us,” he said.
“That is why we have to be generous with the participation of the bases in the election of congressmen,” said Bolívar, although he clarified that The governor today must take care of “manguitos entry”, in reference to former congressman Jonatan Tamayo‘Manguito’, who in 2018 was a senator for the alternative bench and was defending conservative ideas.
Bolívar urged “not to put so many obstacles” and be “generous with whom they have loaded bricks all their lives And today they want, deserve and have the right to put their names on the electoral cards. “
“The situation must solve it, because The unity of the Historical Pact must be guaranteed“The candidate, one of the two women, said in a video, together with Senator María José Pizarro, who will participate in the October consultation. The former official said he felt” worried For the multiple complaints and claims“On the rules for the candidates to Congress.
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