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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Colombia: The Historic Pact Won, the First Triumph on the Road toward Change</h1>
<div class="gmail-credits gmail-reader-credits"></div>By Manuel Humberto Restrepo Domínguez on May 30, 2022.</div><div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-wrapper2">
<div id="gmail-attachment_20465" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-20465" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/6-1-colombia-elect-img.jpg?resize=300%2C189&ssl=1" alt="" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img" width="300" height="189"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-20465" class="gmail-wp-caption-text"><font size="1">Gustavo Petro embraces his vice candidate, Francia Márquez</font></p></div>
<p>More than 20 million people out of nearly 40 million eligible to vote
went to the polls in Colombia on Sunday, in the most complex of all the
elections of this XXI century, in which the democratic center of former
president Uribe has continuously occupied the government palace and has
come to control all public powers by co-optation or decisions with
implicit corruption.<span id="gmail-more-20464"></span></p>
<p>The victory of the left leaning Historical Pact was resounding and
with 8.5 million votes it obtained the largest historical vote of an
alternative power group. The campaign of Gustavo Petro for president and
Francia Márquez for vice-president reached the most outstanding
electoral peak so far in Colombia, where the elites 200 years ago seized
power and have already repeated today, that they are not willing to
give up the country now. The greatest defeat was the candidate of the
party in power that comes from entrails of Uribism and from whom
current President Duque in practice became his campaign manager. As
their curtain began to come down they made recent alterations to the
constitution modifying the law of guarantees that prevented contracting
in electoral times and putting at the service of the candidate his
institutional resources, the deliberate intervention of the commander of
the military forces and the actions of ministers and heads of
portfolio; all of this was focused against the candidate Petro who was
besieged by the biased and unethical media matrix. Nevertheless Duque
was defeated, Uribe was defeated, the horror techniques against
democratic security were defeated.</p>
<p>In the election the unexpected candidate, who emerged and created his
space as a candidate without a party, was tough, macho, Rodolfo
Hernández, a former mayor and wealthy businessman with Trump like
characteristics, who tirelessly repeated as a campaign slogan to get the
rats out of power and end corruption by taking away the checkbook of
the corrupt. He came in second place with 6 million votes and is
preparing to complete the missing votes to arrive strengthened going
into the second round.</p>
<p>The so-called center candidate Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez, a Uribista
once again played the politics of confusion, of the vacillating but
dangerous center for the second time, with the same erratic and
indecipherable strategy, promoter of a chameleon-like performance with
no other sense than being a spoiler in the hunt.</p>
<p>The preparation of the second round scheduled for June 19 is coming,
and in spite of the fact that the Uribista losing candidate, in his
closing words, publicly offered his support to Rodolfo, the
anti-corruption candidate, putting him in a tight spot and closing this
path for him, because it will not be easy for him to gain that many
votes offered by the corruption that Petro and Rodolfo together have
just defeated. The Uribista strategy and that of the Duque government,
its congressional bench and high-ranking officials, is perverse and
directly opportunist, because they put a stick in the wheel to Rodolfo’s
campaign, who could not accept it, nor justify in any way that to
obtain the presidency he could count on any vote of the corrupt people
he has just defeated.</p>
<p>In his closing speech Rodolfo said “the country won because it cannot
continue with the same men and women” and “who thought they were going
to govern eternally”, the ones he was referring to are precisely those
of the party in power, Uribismo, the government, who lost the most in
this election, and are always armored by the clans of corruption and are
the ones directly responsible for the greatest frauds and crimes
against the nation.</p>
<p>The Historic Pact is left with the option of continuing its
unstoppable and determined task of collecting electorally in the second
round, the defeat of the regime of hatred, which it has already
achieved, and consolidating its definitive triumph in the second round.
Perhaps he will have to campaign one by one for each new vote that comes
from the more than 15 million abstainers, who on May 29 did not go out
to vote and convince diverse social groups that the country is not
governed with slogans, tik-tok phrases, nor disqualifications and
rudeness. Thousands of peasants and marginalized people were forced to
vote for Uribism, which has entered its decline and now they will be
free to let their conscience speak, to separate themselves from the old
colonialists, patriarchs, always clinging to policies of hate and death.
In summary, there is a high percentage of the electorate that has not
yet participated, Fico’s votes represent the defeated corruption that no
one can accept and, Rodolfo has serious contradictions about corruption
that is confusing.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://www.resumenlatinoamericano.org/2022/05/30/colombia-gano-el-pacto-historico-primer-triunfo-del-cambio/">Resumen Latinoamericano</a> translation Resumen English</p>
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