Are the chips beginning to move as many citizens have said? Zuluaga, who will support Fico Gutiérrez, said that he leaves his Democratic Center party free to make “the decisions they believe are appropriate.”
Colombia News.
Evidently the result of the inter-party consultation with three disputed coalitions led by Federico ‘Fico’ Gutiérrez, Sergido Fajardo and Gustavo Petro are going to mark the campaign for the presidential election, but the results will also be moved to Congress, because that corporation will be the one that ‘accompanies’ the elected in May during his term.
On Sunday night the three coalitions were united after the result, until now the 15 candidates that appeared there; between them two women, remain in those alliances.
March will be a decisive month to direct the aspirations to reach the Casa de Nariño.
Zuluaza, the first to leave
This Monday, Óscar Iván Zuluaga took a step forward and left with the former mayor of Medellín, who won for the Team for Colombia.
Gutiérrez himself had asked him to join the coalition as an independent, Zuluaga did not accept. But the more than 2 million votes and the possible loss of strength of his party, “made him change his mind.”
He was the candidate of the CD led by Álvaro Uribe Vélez, and now his resignation from that candidacy could deepen the crisis in the political party (which lost 23 seats in Congress), especially because of what happened with María Fernanda Cabal, elected senator again.
For others, it is a “clear” sign that Fico “is the candidate of Uribismo.”
The announcement by Uribe’s ally, but who is now getting off the bus on his way to the Presidency:
I have made the personal decision to accompany the aspiration of @FicoGutierrez.
A message to all Colombians: only united can we preserve democracy and freedom ????https://t.co/TSJxVMMZbK pic.twitter.com/YLxpMSQE6P
– Óscar Iván Zuluaga (@OIZuluaga) March 14, 2022
Alliance that are not easy when it comes to calculating accounts and evaluating whether the support a candidate receives will be the same as the one he chooses to support. Because of that leadership and votes are not necessarily transferable even if the leader asks for it.
Óscar Iván Zuluaga, who already fought for the presidency with Iván Duque and Gustavo Petro, wanted to go to the campaign again, but after the results of this March 13, he has given up.
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