The well-known journalist and former candidate for Congress for the New Liberalism announced that she was heeding the call of the environmental activist Francia Márquez for the second presidential round
The renowned journalist and former candidate for Congress for the New Liberalism announced that she was heeding the call of the environmental activist Francia Márquez for the second presidential round. File.
This Tuesday, May 31, the journalist and former candidate for the Colombian Congress for the New Liberalism, Mabel Lara, announced her support for the presidential campaign of the opposition leader and left-wing senator, Gustavo Petro, who reached the highest number of votes during the first round. presidential and will dispute the second round with the businessman and former mayor of Bucaramanga Rodolfo Hernández.
The communicator, a native of Puerto Tejada, Cauca, sent a letter to the director of the reborn community, former senator Juan Manuel Galán, in which she expressed the reasons why she joins the leftist alliance after the defeat at the polls. of Coalición Centro Esperanza, a group that freed the parties and movements that supported the former mayor of Medellín and former governor of Antioquia Sergio Fajardo.
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“Thus things are, I have received the call from a black woman, from the region who, like me, has fought democratically at the polls and has invited me to accompany her. I accept the call of my friend Francia Márquez at this important moment in history and I give her my vote to do so. My region, the country where I come from has spoken and the political reality and my ideological coherence place me in this position without hesitation in the face of the second presidential round”, Lara highlighted in the letter.
In this sense, he denounced that in Cauca there has been a historical absence of the State and of the political class that has not listened to the civilian population, which is why he grew up hoping to help transform the realities that have hit the communities. forgotten in the national territory and was formed in the “rebellion that wrinkles the soul” by witnessing the injustices of racism, machismo and inequality.
On the other hand, he indicated that together with the New Liberalism he sought to channel this “rebellion” through democratic transformation through political struggle and a journey through the different regions collecting the voices of thousands of citizens who feel forgotten, indicating that the “synergies , affinities and positions” that she has shared with the reborn community and allowed her to dream of a better country “are still intact”, however, the moment called her to support the project of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez.
“I am sure that we need a transformation that eliminates this social gap, that makes us equal to women, blacks, Indians, mestizos, ordinary Colombians through education , opportunities and social justice and that transformation, which Sergio Fajardo embodied, will not be possible this time”, concluded the communicator in the letter.
This announcement of Mabel Lara occurs one day after he former mayor of Medellín and former governor of Antioquia Sergio Fajardo, who led the presidential aspirations of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, gave free rein to the parties and movements that made up this center alliance that only reached 4% of the votes with 888 thousand votes during the presidential elections.