Hernández, 77, chooses to become Colombia’s next president. His populist discourse, an engineer by trade, was based on the fight against corruption, albeit without specifying measures.
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Rodolfo Hernandez Suarez, 77, engineer By profession, he is a successful businessman from the Santander region, in northeastern Colombia. The former mayor of Bucaramanga is also known as “the old man” of TikTok.
Hernández was born in Piedecuesta (Santander) in 1945 into a working-class family and became millionaire in the 90s thanks to building affordable housing.
He started his political career in bucaramanga, capital of the department of Santander, where he served as mayor from 2016 to 2019 until the attack on an opposition councilor led to his post being suspended. Already in that campaign that catapulted him to the mayor’s office, he made the word “engineer” inseparable from his name, precisely in an attempt to give the impression that, since he was already rich, he did not have to get out of the public treasury. steal to line his pockets. Something that worked for him and accompanied him in his run to the presidency.
This tycoon has defended his status as “outsider” trying to reach the presidency of Colombia. The candidate of the Anti-Corruption League of Governors movement or the “Colombian Trump”, as some call him, does not define himself politically, although his proposals lean more towards populism. His populist discourse is based on the fight against corruption, albeit without many concrete measures proposing how to fight it. And despite the lack of specificity, the anti-corruption discourse has permeated the public. Likewise, he accuses traditional politicians of all the evil the country suffers.
Unlike the rest of the candidates, Rodolfo Hernández has not toured the country in gatherings in public squares, but in small meetings with supporters. At the same time, he continues with a presidential campaign with a strong presence on social networks. If he becomes president, Hernández will have no party in Congress, something that could lead to difficulties in governing.
The businessman became a politician who has become popular for his personality has been the subject of numerous controversies for his way of expressing himself openly, sometimes to vulgarity. He recently stated in an interview that he admired Adolf Hitler.
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Source: EITB
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