Sergio Fajardo and Rodolfo Hernández work on a programmatic agreement for the second round

The former candidate of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, and three members of his team, Jorge Enrique Robledo, Carlos Amaya and Juan Fernando Cristo, seek to build a program of government with the businessman from Santander

The former candidate of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, and three members of his team, Jorge Enrique Robledo, Carlos Amaya and Juan Fernando Cristo seek to build a government program with the businessman from Santander. REUTERS/Luisa Gonzalez

This Thursday, June 2, the former mayor of Medellín and former presidential candidate of the Hope Center Coalition, Sergio Fajardo, announced that he was working with the businessman and presidential candidate of the independent League of Governors Anticorruption movement, Rodolfo Hernández, with the purpose of reaching a programmatic agreement for the second presidential round.

The former governor of Antioquia announced that he had met with the Santanderean politician, who reached the second highest vote during the presidential elections and is emerging as the most likely candidate to win the presidency of Colombia, according to opinion polls, to discuss government programs and “find the coincidences” that would lead to an eventual government program.

“We are talking, discussing issues, reviewing the coincidences, looking where adjustments need to be made and that this process leads us to have a government program that later becomes the development plan of a government headed by Rodolfo Hernández. Here we go, this is the first step and we are doing it with all seriousness and rigor, “said Fajardo.

However, the former president of Antioquia explained that so far no agreement has been reached with the businessman who will dispute the second round together with the opposition leader and presidential candidate of the left-wing alliance of the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petro, however, he clarified that work will continue to reach the necessary agreements to consolidate the development plan of the next government.

In turn, he pointed out that during the talk they had addressed issues that they considered fundamental together with the members of his coalition, who also participated in the meeting, Senator Jorge Enrique Robledo; the former governor of Boyacá, Carlos Amaya; and the former Minister of the Interior, Juan Fernando Cristo, in which they had discussed the role of women in government, “without a women’s program there is no possibility that we can advance in Colombia.”

“What we are doing is what is best for Colombia. It’s not whims that I want to impose or he wants to impose, it’s what suits the country. I want to make something very clear, in Colombia there are 22 million Colombians enduring hunger, the purpose of the next government has to focus on getting all those Colombians out of poverty who have suffered the rigors of neoliberal policies that took them out of the economic circuits< /b>”, indicated the presidential candidate Hernández.

The Colombian media outlet La Silla Vacía learned that some of the issues that had been proposed by the members of the Esperanza Center Coalition as fundamental were a landed tax reform, gender policies, negotiations with the National Liberation Army (ELN), cordial international relations, defense of the institutionality and zero agreements with Uribismo, a political project that was one of the most affected in the first presidential return.

“We are talking with Dr. Fajardo’s group to focus on what I think, such as the way in which e administers and manages the country and what they think, to be able to interrelate them and get the best out of those two thoughts to really help Colombia”, indicated the candidate Hernández.