“I will not give up the mandate that the people gave me”: France Márquez

Within the framework of the commemorative event of the International Day of Afro -descendant Women and Girls, held in Cali, the vice president of Colombia, France Márquez, He sent a overwhelming message about his role in the government and the fight to occupy spaces of power.

During his closing speech, Márquez firmly said that He will not renounce the vice presidency, making it clear that, despite tensions within the government, he will continue to exercise the position he assumed after the electoral triumph of 2022.

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“I am here as your vice president and here we continue this year we have left. It is not true that I will give up the mandate that the Colombian people gave me, I will not give up the vice presidency, if God and the ancestors allow myself to go here on August 7 of next year. We are firm, we are working, we continue to build with our mother Africa, it continues to gesture, doors are still opening, “he said.

These last words occurred after a critical speech towards their own government, in which he pointed out that, Although he was allowed to be in the vice presidency after winning in the second round, he was not fully recognized as a legitimate figure within power. Márquez also spoke that he has been the victim of “episodes of delegitimation, sabotage and exclusion” from the same electoral campaign.

“I want to shout, tell how this country drags us in its narratives and then blames us for not breathing. How is a black woman eliminated from power in contemporary democracy? With narratives that serve as an prelude to explosives and bullets, ”he said.

The vice president took advantage of the meeting to call on women and Afro -descendant communities to continue fighting for real and effective representation at all levels of the State.

Finally expressed before dozens of attendees in the auditorium of the Free University, which He had stayed quiet and that the time had come to speak.

France Márquez’s speech reactions in Cali

On purpose, the radical change representative, Lina María Garrido, Who had already talked about the current role of the vice president in the Government in the midst of her speech last July 20, He came out again in his defense.

In a message he published in his X account He asked him to tell everything and save his dignity.

“Tell everything. Save a little of your dignity. Do it for Cauca, its land, to which this government condemned and forgot. There they are still waiting for the fruits of having one of their daughters in the most important position in the country. What Gustavo Petro has done is repudiable. Women and Afro must collect that invoice in the 2026 elections, ”he said.

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After the statements The Secretary of Peace and Citizen Culture of Cali, Johana Caicedo, also supported the vice president and warned that political issues cannot dehumanizethey cannot destroy and in that sense, we have to hug.

The event He brought together social leaders, activists and representatives of Afro -descendant Women Organizations from several countrieswho also echoed the words of the vice president, highlighting the need to advance public policies with ethnic, gender and territorial approach.