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Iván Duque, President of Colombia.
The president of Colombia, Iván Duque, guaranteed this Sunday that next Sunday’s elections to elect his successor will be held as is. planned, when commenting on an alleged plot to suspend them denounced the day before by the left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro.
“Please, we have an old democracy, one of the oldest democracies in America. Latin America, strong, solid institutions, here we are. It cannot occur to anyone that the elections are going to be suspended or that there are going to be coups d’état,” Duque told Colombian journalists in Davos (Switzerland), where he will participate. at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
Petro said last night during a rally in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla that the government intends to suspend the presidential elections, for which he is the favorite in the polls, and called on the other campaigns to join against what he called “a blow to the elections next Sunday, May 29”.
In this regard, Duque stressed that this assumption has no basis because he is “a democrat, I have been a democrat”, and he pointed out that is why he has “denounced dictators” like the president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and “that is also why I always denounced him. the dictatorial whims of Hugo Chávez”.
“Here With all clarity we have a vibrant democracy and we are going to see elections next week where all the Colombian people have to go out and vote well and vote well”, he concluded. the president.
In fact, the voting of Colombians abroad, which opens a week before the appointment with the polls in the country, has already begun. He went to the Consulate in Auckland (New Zealand), since due to the time difference, it is already Monday in that oceanic country.
Petro has led all voting intention polls since he started The presidential race but in none does it reach the half plus one of the votes necessary to win in the first round, so a second round would be necessary on June 19 between the two most voted.
The latest survey by the firm Invamer for Blu Radio, Noticias Caracol and El Espectador, shows Petro with 40.6% of the intention to vote, followed by “Fico” Gutiérrez, from the right-wing coalition Team for Colombia, with 27.1%, and by the populist Rodolfo Hernández, from the Anti-Corruption Governors League, with 20.9%.