None of the candidates seduces the citizens, who consider them unpredictable and fear that the country will settle in radicalism
Let them catch us confessed! The phrase will surely be pronounced or thought by more than thirty million Colombian citizens who will decide this Sunday who will direct the future of their country. Gustavo Petro or Rodolfo Hernandez. They call it change. A new face for a beautiful, rich country, but one that survives with an open wound, bleeding from political corruption, drug trafficking and common crime. Colombia votes to lean towards the risk of having a left-wing president for the first time or demonstrating for a right-wing populist. The center ceased to exist, and ‘uribismo’ does not compete on this occasion.
He was buried by Iván Duque, the outgoing president, the favorite son of Álvaro Uribe, who ruled the country in the shadows during the years 2002-2010 and who yesterday was sentenced to two-day house arrest for contempt of a court ruling .
Some political scientists say that electoral contests fracture societies. Colombia has been fractured for a long time. Today is the final judgement. None of the options seduce Colombians. They are unpredictable, risky. To cross himself before choosing the ballot. But you have to vote. The center, the traditional parties have disappeared from the political spectrum. And the fear is that the country lives in radicalism.
“Anyone except Petro” is the slogan of the center and the right. And so both ideologies try to reverse the vote. The total disqualification of the candidate of the left is what has been imposed. They have accused him of leading the country towards communism or directing it towards Castro-Chavismo, which is the same thing. And so the fear is that Colombia will follow in the footsteps of Peru, Chile or whatever results in the next elections in Brazil. The turn to the left is feared throughout Colombia, very afraid of turning towards a Venezuela of Maduro.
The final judgment of the elections for the presidency of Colombia faces an economist, with a slight past as a guerrilla of the M-19, who prefers to define himself as a revolutionary, former mayor of Bogotá and a man who has been thinking for some time that he can change Colombia . A politician who includes France Márquez in her team as vice president, a lawyer, feminist, social leader, winner of the Goldman Prize for her fight for the environment.
“It is not about choosing between the surname Petro or Hernández. It is something more transcendent. This is the Colombia we want. If we want to continue going backwards or forwards, continue in the past, in the inequality of women, or advance together, continue destroying education or advance towards the freedom that knowledge gives us, continue letting corruption rule us or confront and definitively eradicate to the corrupt. Continue in this state of violence and restlessness or move towards peace. This is not about the triumph of Petro or Hernández. This is a true and real change towards a Colombia where life triumphs. The future is in your hands.” This was Gustavo Petro’s last message to citizens through social networks.
Political corruption
The engineer Rodolfo Hernández, who has based his campaign on the fight against political corruption, addressed the Caribbean community, which is supposedly a supporter of Petro. To this region he promised to review the direct and indirect costs of the entire chain, from the generation of energy to bringing it to the consumer at the individual meter. «I think that in that chain there are unjustifiable cost overruns. Look me in the eyes, read me in the eyes. I will not fail them.”
Petro has promised everything, which makes him believable, but at the same time they also make him doubtful, because many believe that he only wants power. In this sense, he guarantees a national agreement with the idea of agreeing on the development of peace in Colombia, of eradicating violence and ending corruption. «The great national agreement is a peace agreement, and a great agreement of society that we hope will be legitimized today.
The Hernández option for many Colombians represents continuity. His announced fight against corruption collides with the accusation of him for the same reason and for images such as the one released yesterday, in which he is seen sailing on a yacht accompanied by several young women and in a festive attitude. Although the recording dates from last year and does not reveal any improper or criminal action, the opponents of the independent candidate took advantage of them to present him as a sexist.
May God take all confessed Colombians!
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