And he added: “We are going to receive support for the philosophy of government, welcome to all Colombians who want to support that philosophy to see if we can all get this country that we love so much forward.”
Rodolfo Hernández, of the League of Anticorruption Leaders, obtained 28.15% of the vote on Sunday, behind Gustavo Petro, of the leftist coalition Historical Pactwho kept 40.32%, according to the National Registry, with 99.99% of the polling stations counted.
Hernández, known as “the Colombian Donald Trump”, left the candidate of the traditional right out of the race for the presidency, Federico “Fico” Gutierrezfrom the Equipo por Colombia coalition, who obtained 23.91% of the votes.
Gutiérrez said on Sunday after acknowledging his defeat that he will vote for the independent and former mayor of Bucaramanga, while Sergio Fajardothe centrist candidate who came fourth in the elections, has not yet said who he will support in the June 19 vote.
“I don’t know how valuable my voice is at this stage. I have spoken with Rodolfo (Hernández) in the past, we know each other. Last night he called me and said he wanted to talk to me. Nobody on Petro’s side. But we have to land calmly and wisdom. I want to contribute,” Fajardo said Monday on Radio Caracol.
“He is invited, I have already called him to invite him, we need the support of all Colombians who want to be present in this second round with their vote, we need a clear, forceful mandate, that there are no doubts,” said Rodolfo Hernández.
Hernández, 77, also declared that “what is going to happen is going to be terrifying” in the second round because he believes that it will reach 12 million votes, double the 5,953,209 votes he received this Sunday in the first round. of the presidential elections, according to official data from the National Registry.
He also maintained that his first objective is “clean once and for all from the national government the thieves who end up betraying the interests of Colombians. Politicians have been drones.”
For Hernández, “Colombia is a company that has 50 million shareholders; if we don’t remove the bad administrators, those who steal public assets, Colombia fails.”
The independent candidate has recognized that three years ago he supported Gustavo Petro and that the outgoing president, Ivan Duke, seemed “inexperienced and very young”. “And I was not wrong,” he remarked.
Source: Ambito
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