With her fist raised and few smiles, the 40-year-old lawyer assured that she will work for women, blacks, indigenous people, peasants, the LGBTI population and young people who protested massively against the conservative government of Iván Duque in 2021.
Petro announced that Márquez will also command the Ministry of Equality that he intends to create if he wins the presidency, as all the polls anticipate.
“From slavery to power (…) from exclusion to democracy, from permanent violence to peace,” declared the 61-year-old former guerrilla.
Márquez survived in 2019 an attack with grenades and rifle blasts for his defense of water in Afro-descendant communities. A year earlier, he had received the Goldman Prize —also known as the Nobel Prize for the environment— for his environmental struggle in Cauca (southwest), the department where he was born.
Historical Pact
The Historical Pact coalition (from the left) also won, not only being the most voted internal consultation of the day, but also obtaining a large number of seats in the Senate and in the House of Representatives.
The Historic Pact won 16 seats in the Senate out of a possible 102, a figure equal to that of the traditional Conservative Party and above the Liberal Party, also one of the country’s traditional parties, which won 15.
In the House of Representatives, the Historical Pact won 25 seats (the second force after the Liberal Party, which won 32), a result that even surprised Petro, who assured that the coalition “achieved the best result of progressivism in the history of Colombia “.
Federico ‘Fico’ Gutierrez
Federico Gutiérrez, from the movement We Believe Colombia, swept the right-wing poll with 2.1 million votes, which makes him the presidential candidate who will face Petro and the other presidential candidates between now and May 29.
Gutiérrez, former mayor of Medellín, won a resounding victory over other candidates such as Álex Char, the conservative David Barguil, among others, and is considered the unofficial candidate of Uribismo.
Jonathan Ferney Pulido
Jonathan Ferney Pulido is a youtuber recently arrived in the political arena, he campaigned only on social networks, without ads in traditional media. With more than 189,000 votes, Pulido was the senator with the most votes from the alternative parties, and the third with the most votes after Miguel Uribe and María Fernanda Cabal, from the Democratic Center, who have been in politics for years.