The winner of yesterday’s elections urged his militancy to get “a million more votes” for the second round of June 19 and the Colombians, to “not jump to suicide” because the country “needs fundamental reforms.”
“Now we have to build and understand what Colombian society wants from its country,” he said last night, giving his long-awaited speech after the elections.
Gustavo Petro stressed that Rodolfo Hernández did not present a government plan but only appeals against corruption, despite the fact that “he is accused of corruption.”
“Corruption is not fought ‘peak’ or with TikTok videos”, remarked the candidate of the Historical Pact62, who appeared before the militancy and the media along with his running mate, France Marquezand relatives of both.
Earlier, through a message read and recorded in a kitchen, without followers or relatives, Hernández had mentioned his intention to “unite Colombia,” which was quickly interpreted as a decision to go out and seek Gutiérrez’s votes.
“We are already in the second half, today corruption lost,” said the coalition candidate League of Anti-Corruption Rulers and former mayor of Bucaramanga, 77 years old.
“I am aware of the need to unite the country in a change and I am aware of the difficulties that there will be when I am president,” Hernández said, questioned about the lack of a government plan and also of a political structure.
In any case, and even eliminated from the presidential race, the one who shook the electoral night was Federico Gutiérrez, announcing without delay his support for Hernández for the ballot.
“We are not talking to Rodolfo (Hernández) nor do I need to; I want to express publicly that we do not want to lose the country or put the future of Colombia at risk, that is why we will vote for Rodolfo and Marelen (Castillo) on June 19,” Gutiérrez said.
The candidate considered closest to the current ruling party explained that this decision represents “the most sensible way of protecting freedoms,” because he understands that Gustavo Petro constitutes “a danger because of what he said and what he did.”
In conversation with various media outlets, including Télam, Petro’s collaborators stated that they had been evaluating different alternatives for the ballot depending on yesterday’s result.
They trusted that the three weeks leading up to the second round will lay bare the scarcity of Hernández’s proposalswho usually expresses himself publicly in a rude manner and is identified with leaders such as the American donald trump and the brazilian Jair Bolsonaro.
Five years ago, Hernández said he admired Adolf Hitlerbut he retracted with not very clear justifications last year, when he was already launched into the presidential race.
The elections in Colombia are the second since the government signed the peace agreement with the FARC guerrillas, but the issue was hardly among the main ones of the campaign, unlike poverty and corruption.
The elections were generally calm except for the assassination of a partisan prosecutor in the Meta department, in the center of the country, when the voting centers had already closed, and three explosive attacks on the security forces in two regions in the south of the country. country, reported Defense Minister Diego Molano.
Source: Ambito
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