(ANSA) – BOGOTA ‘, MAY 23 – One week before the presidential elections in Colombia scheduled for May 29, the successor candidates of the current president Iván Duque closed their electoral campaigns on Sunday, in the last street rallies that gathered the their supporters in various locations across the country. Gustavo Petro, the left-wing candidate and favorite for victory according to the polls, closed the campaign in a crowded Plaza de Bolívar in Bogota, at the center of Colombian political power, with a speech in which he once again reiterated the need for “change. “. “We are in libertarian Bogotá, in democratic Bogotá, in Bogotá which has always raised the banner of justice and rights”, assured Petro, adding that “it is in love and not in hatred” that “we can find unity”. The candidate of the Pacto Historico coalition, which brings together various left-wing parties, recalled the meeting with Pope Francis a few months ago in the Vatican, citing the encyclical “Fratelli Tutti” and stressing that there is “political love”. which is “love for the poor, love for the weakest” and for the “excluded”. Right-wing candidate Federico Gutiérrez, in second place for voting intentions, ended his election campaign in Medellín, despite a downpour that nearly ruined the demonstration. The leader of the Equipo por Colombia coalition promised free education for the poorest and assured that “we will win the presidency to unite”, adding that “the important thing is to stop hate speech”.
Independent candidate Rodolfo Hernández, who has grown up in the polls in recent weeks, sent a message to his supporters gathered in the town of Piedecuesta (northeast) by videoconference. “We are tired of waiting for everything that the politicians promise us, and they do not achieve anything”, but “this tiredness is not a defeat, because on May 29 we will vote against all those thieves and remove them from the government,” said the 77-year-old candidate. years. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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