Opposition leader favorite as countdown to Colombia's 2022 elections begins
by Adriaan Alsema March 17, 2021
Opposition leader Gustavo Petro began the year ahead of Colombia’s 2022 presidential elections with a clear lead over his most powerful rivals.
Petro, who lost the elections to President Ivan Duque in 2018, can count on the support of 19% of Colombia’s voters, according to pollster Datexco.
The opposition senator is followed by former Medellin Mayor Sergio Fajardo, who can count on 11%, and former Barranquilla Mayor Alejandro Char, an ally of the president and his far-right Democratic Center (CD) party.
The prominent member of the notoriously corrupt Char Clan can count on the support of 6% of voters, more than CD primary candidate Federico Gutierrez, who can count on the support of 4% of voters, according to Datexco.
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Best wishes for the always courageous, intelligent, respected leader, Gustavo Petro. May he win this time, despite all the coercion and constant threat from the far right, and come through this election un-murdered, which has never been easy for progressives in Colombia. This man has always been a hero to the non-violent people without power.
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On edit, adding Wikipedia for Gustavo Petro:
Mayoralty of Bogota
During Petro's administration, measures such as the prohibition on the carrying of firearms were advanced, which led to the reduction of the homicide rate, reaching the lowest figure of the last two decades.[24][25] In his government, various interventions were carried out by the police in El Bronx sector of the city, where seizures of drugs and weapons were made. During the Petro administration, the Women's Secretariat was created and the LGBTI Citizenship Center was inaugurated, where 49 centers for birth control and abortion care were also created in cases permitted by law.[26]
It was proposed as a government policy to conserve the wetlands of Bogotá and plan for the preservation of water in the face of global warming. Following order of the Constitutional Court, began a process of suppression of animal-drawn vehicles used by waste pickers, some were replaced by automotive vehicles and subsidies. In the area of public health, Mobile Attention Centers for Drug Addicts (CAMAD) were created. With these measures, the aim was to reduce the dependency of the destitute in the streets of the sector to the providers of narcotic drugs, providing psychological and medical assistance. During its administration, the District put into operation two primary-care clinics at the San Juan de Dios Hospital, closed in 2001. The Mayor promised that he would allocate resources to purchase the Hospital grounds and reopen one of the buildings of the complex. The project remained stopped due to the Cundinamarca government's suspension of the sale of the properties. On February 11, 2015, as mayor of Bogotá, the protocol ceremony for the reopening of the San Juan de Dios Hospital Complex was finally formalized. The District bought the hospital with a view to reopening it. During his last month in office, before the liquidation of Saludcoop on December 1, 2015, the district had difficulties with the new patients who became part of the EPS Capital Salud.
In his government, the application of the Integrated Public Transport System (SITP) began, inaugurated in mid-2012. Likewise, during the administration of Petro, subsidies paid by the District to reduce Transmilenio tariffs were created. In turn, since early 2014 the administration provided a 40% subsidy for the value of the ticket for the population affiliated to SISBEN 1 and 2, for which it allocated 138 billion pesos. This subsidy is not delivered immediately, as it requires registration in a database, and is valid only for 21 passages when using the blue buses of the SITP.
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