Petro, 62, is the candidate of the leftist coalition Historic Pact. As an economist by profession, he proposes, among other things, an agrarian reform, a minimum income and the dismantling of the riot police.
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Gustavo Petroc (Historic Pact) has 62 years forks economist deformation. A graduate of Externado University, he has a specialization in administration from the Higher School of Public Administration (ESAP) and a diploma in specialized studies in DDevelopment, Population and Environment from the Catholic University of Leuven.
In the 1980s, he submitted the M-19 movement, a Colombian urban guerrilla organization that rose to demand democracy, and after demobilization in 1990, Petro entered institutional political life. founded the political party Democratic Alliance M-19 from which he participated in the drafting of the 1991 Constitution and arrived at the House of Representatives However, he did not win reelection and it took until 2002 when he tried again to get a seat. In those elections he was the deputy with the highest electoral support in the entire country
During that term of office, he stood out as one of the major opponents of the government of President Álvaro Uribeespecially in projects such as the anti-terrorist statute and constitutional reform that allowed for the re-election of Uribe himself.
In 2005Gustavo Petro supported the creation of the political party Alternative Democratic Poleeducation for which he won a seat in the Colombian Senate in 2006 The achieved projection facilitated his presentation as a presidential candidate in the elections of 2010in which he was the third most voted.
Later left the Polo Democrático to found his own partywith which he arrived at the Mayor of Bogota in 2011 Six years later, he relaunched his presidential candidacy for the movement Colombia Humanwhich he advanced to the second round, where he was defeated by the current president, Ivan Duke
Gustavo Petro with his family. Photo: EFE
On March 13, 2021, he won the c . primaries with nearly 80% supportHistorical Covenant Alliance and chose as vice presidential candidate France Marquez
Francia Márquez Mina is a 39-year-old lawyer born in suarezCauca, known for its activism against illegal mining In fact it was Forced to leave from its territory after receipt of hazards
His work has won him awards such as the National Prize for the Defense of Human Rights in Colombia or the Goldman Environmental Awardwhich is the equivalent of a Nobel Prize for the environment.
Márquez’s campaign is sector-driven Afro-descendants, women and youthwhich resonates on social networks through applications such as Tik Tok and Instagram, where it has more than 400,000 followers.
In substance, it defends feminism, justice and the inclusion of population groups that are separated because of their sexual orientation or economic position.
Mural by Francia Márquez in Suárez. Photo: EFE
Your renovation project
Gustavo Petro hopes to become the Colombia’s first left-wing president Petro and his project are largely the result of the social protests of 2019 and 2020who gave one political turnaround to the Colombian spectrum similar to that in countries such as Chile, Ecuador or Peru. The discontent was reflected in a program called ‘Colombia world power of life‘ which collects important points, such as the agricultural reform or the security forces
The programmatic text calls a . on radical change of economic model that promote agricultural production that is undergoing agrarian reform that addresses inequalities in land ownership and use guaranteeing the right to land of rural families with women as a priority.
It also includes measures against the ‘fracking‘, the rform of private and public pension fundsa basic minimum incomethe impulse of the renewable energy and a tax reform which he hopes will help the 4,000 richest Colombians pay nearly 12,000 million pesos a year (about 2.84 million euros).
Faced with attacks from his conservative and liberal rivals, Petro has responded that: does not intend to “expropriate, but democratize” In April, Petro even signed a document in a notary’s office promising not to expropriate.
The program also collects measures to protect ecosystems and natural resourceswith an extensive mention of water.
Special attention is paid in the text to the promotion of equality of women For this, they propose that they 50% of all public offices at all levels of power and that there is a Ministry of Equality responsible for formulating policies regarding gender.
At the institutional level, the Historic Pact has promised to move towards the “demilitarization of social lifel” and the dismantling of the controversial Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (ESMAD), which starred in scenes of repression during the 2019-20 wave of protests.
It also states that abolition of military criminal jurisdictions and proposes strengthening military justice investigative processes to end impunity, as well as measures to protect social leaders after the deaths of 145 activists in 2021 alone.
It also suggests continuing with a negotiations for the ultimate peace with the guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (THEN).
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