Paola Holguín, Paloma Valencia, María Fernanda Cabal and Andrés Guerra are the candidates of the Democratic Center.
This Sunday a conversation promoted by the Democratic Center party, in tribute to the murdered senator and presidential candidate Miguel Uribe Turbay.
The virtual space was led by the Director of the community, Gabriel Vallejo, and was attended by former president Álvaro Uribe Vélez And the four presidential candidates, the senators Paola Holguín, Paloma Valencia, María Fernanda Cabal and Andrés Guerra.
He also attended Miguel Uribe Londoñofather of the murdered Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay.
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In his speech, the ex -president requested to call a meeting next Tuesday with the Uribe Turbay family, For them to decide on the possibility that a new name adds to the list of Aspiring to the house of Nariño, replacing the murdered congressman.
“I am going to beg the following: that, no later than Tuesday, The four candidates or represented by one of them or them, and the director of the party, ask for an appointment and meet with Dr. Miguel Uribe Londoñowho represents the whole family of Miguel Uribe Turbay, ”he said.
However, Uribe was emphatic in The person who eventually replaces Uribe Turbay It must be Militant of the Democratic Center.
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“We have some people who are militants and party activists, and others who have increasingly expressing identification with our thesis, But they are not militants or have been. My respectful suggestion is that, If the number of four candidates will increase byaccording to what is talk to Dr. Uribe Londoño, It must be at the head of a militantof a person from the party. I want to be clear about that, ”he said.
With this statement, He closed the door to former defense minister Juan Carlos Pinzónwho had been asking for track in the community.
However, he left Open the possibility that Pinzón integrates In a future coalition with the unique candidate of the Democratic Center.
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“The party has to make coalitions based on essential principles, which requires a democratic project for restoration of the course of the nation, ”he said.
Emergency in the choice
The former president also asked to accelerate the definition of the Single Candidate of the Democratic Center, in order to guarantee a campaign that reaches the entire national territory.
“They have talked about a international survey, whateverto say the candidates, but I would beg, Mr. Director, that the Democratic Center has a candidate before September ends. For that candidate or that candidate to have the opportunity From a sufficient campaign time, it would be something that I would respectfully ask for, ”he said.
What said Uribe Londoño?
He Senator’s murdered father thanked former president “trust” in his son’s ideas and expressed his willingness to contribute to the triumph of the party candidate in the 2026 elections.
“Have the legacy of my son [Miguel Uribe Turbay] To achieve this purpose of winning the elections and that, with whom it is favored in these consultations, let’s save Colombia, ”he said.
He added: “This great party must be the one who decides who should lead the end of the new communism in the country. Just four days ago I had the hardest moment that a father can live: to bury my murdered son Miguel Uribe Turbay with only 39 years. (…) They wanted to silence him without realizing that, committing that homicide, they achieved the opposite. ”
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