“We have one of the oldest democracies in Latin America, strong, solid institutions,” Duque said in a video he shared on his Twitter social network account.
“No one can imagine that the elections are going to be suspended or coups are going to take place,” he added.
“We have a vibrant democracy,” he said.
Duque assured that next Sunday there will be “elections where all the Colombian people have to go out and vote well.”
Yesterday, Petro had accused the authorities of wanting to stop the elections next Sunday.
“They plan to suspend the elections, they plan to suspend the bodies that direct the electoral regime in Colombia”Petro warned during his campaign rally in Barranquilla, before 40,000 people.
The 62-year-old former mayor of Bogotá said that his coalition’s campaign for the Historic Pact has “come so close to popular victory” that there is a “desperate corruption regime.”
“We are on the verge of winning the Presidency of the Republic,” he emphasized.
Public campaign events were held today. Petro and his vice-presidential candidate, the environmentalist Francia Márquez, were in the center of Bogotá next to the mayor’s office that he occupied between 2012 and 2015.
Petro, who was also a presidential candidate in 2010 and 2018, began his campaign closure last Thursday in Cali, on Friday he was in Medellín, yesterday in Barranquilla.
While, Federico “Fico” Gutierrez did a rally in Medellin (northwest), its cradle and the second city of the country.
Next Sunday the 29th, the first round will be held to define the successor of Iván Duque, of the right-wing Democratic Center party, and the two favorites are Petro and “Fico” Gutiérrez, the candidate of the right-wing coalition Team for Colombia.
Final stretch
Surveys show an advantage for Petro, with around the 38% of the votesin front of Gutierrez, that represents the establishment and the traditional parties and that would get 30%.
Behind them, Rodolfo Hernández, from the Centro Esperanza Coalition, would reach 20.3%, while Sergio Fajardo, from the center alliance Liga de Gobernantes Anticorrupción, 4.3%.
These figures would lead to a ballotscheduled for June 19, between the first two, since to define the elections in the first round one of the candidates must achieve 50% of the votes plus one.
According to recent polls, Petro and Gutiérrez, 47, would achieve a technical tie in the second round.
The growth of the Historical Pact crystallized last March in the legislative elections, when it became one of the dominant forces in the Senate, with 16 factions, and second in the Lower House, with 28, just behind the Liberal Party, led by former president César Gaviria, with 15 and 33 respectively.
Against this background, during his campaign rally in Barranquilla, Petro summoned Fajardo and Hernández to meet tomorrow, since “on Tuesday (the authorities) plan to hit the elections for next Sunday, May 29,” he added, reported the Europa Press news agency.
“I invite you to coordinate unity. Fajardo and Hernández to dialogue not about how we become perhaps a single candidacy but how we defend democracy from the terror unleashed in the corrupt regime that tries to prevent the elections,” he said, reported the local newspaper. The viewer.
He also called for “acting calmly” and asked his followers to be “attentive and mobilized” so as not to “fall into violence and the trap.”
Meanwhile, the attorney general, Margarita Cabello Blanco, explained that “the dates of the elections in Colombia are set by the Constitution and the Law, therefore, they are not subject to change.”
The national registrar Alexander Vega, in charge of organizing and directing the elections, assured that he is “able to guarantee reliable and transparent elections” during a press conference.
Source: Ambito
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