On June 19, the second round will be held to define who will be the President of the Republic
According to the latest results of the National Registry of Civil Status on its official website,The two candidates for the Presidency of the Republic of Colombia who are going to a second round are Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernández.
In the pre-count of the National Registry, with 96.1% of the tables informed, Gustavo Petro has the advantage with 40.34% equivalent to 8,230,461 of the total votes counted. For his part, the engineer, Rodolfo Hernández, has 28.08% with 5,730,868 votes.
Petro ran for the Presidency with the Historical Pact while Hernández is representing the LIGA party (League of Anticorruption Governors).
Thus, on June 19 Colombians in national territory and those living abroad will have the opportunity to vote in the second round to find out who will be the next president of the Republic 2022 – 2026.
Continuing with the results of the Registrar’s Office, these are the figures of the other candidates who did not have a high percentage in the pre-count.
Who are the candidates
Gustavo Petro is in his duo with the candidate for the Vice Presidency, Francia Márquez, who is 40 years old and was born in Yolombó, Antioquia, and is also a lawyer, social leader and human rights defender.
In turn, Petro is an economist and specialist in the Environment and Population Development, former mayor of Bogotá and Senator of the Republic.
Now, the engineer Rodolfo Hernández, was born in Piedecuesta, Santander, he is 77 years old and was Mayor of Bucaramanga, capital of the same department where he was born. He is accompanied by the vice-presidential candidate, Marelen Castillo, a 53-year-old Colombian teacher, industrial engineer and researcher.
Main topics of the Government plan
Gustavo Petro has 4 main lines of work for what would be his presidential government:
–Society for life: they would guarantee fundamental rights with food, health, pensions and housing.
-Change is with women:It alludes to political representation for the female gender, economic equality and zero violence towards them.
-Economy for life: World Power of Life is the name of the plan that promises deep transformations to face the emergency due to climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
–Technology plan for life: they promise that for the year 2026 all Colombians will be able to access the internet.
On the other hand, Rodolfo Hernández has the following topics as a work plan:
-Colombia as a social state of law: raises issues such as youth policy, childhood and adolescence, basic sanitation, housing.
-Economic and social development : focus on the countryside, environment, infrastructure, transportation, culture, tourism and sports.
-A state of equals before the law: citizen security, justice, foreign relations.
-An efficient and modern country: it promises development in science, technology and innovation, and a transparent policy.
-A capital vision of the territory: improvements in a mass transportation system, management of solid waste, Venezuelan migrant population.
Why Petro and Rodolfo Hernández have been successful in social networks
When entering YouTube, a page web, TikTok or Instagram, it is usual for a Colombian or a person in the United States to see a video of the candidates Gustavo Petro and Rodolfo Hernández. The reason: his digital advisors were able to read the behavior of internet users and determined that these platforms were the most appropriate to reach a larger audience.
“Part of Rodolfo’s success and Petro is that they have a team to make creative ideas where a script is created, there is a production and these roles must be articulated to create the best possible products”, explained Édgar Medina, political marketing analyst.