President Ivan Duque revealed that he will vote in consultations between coalitions on March 13, which might lead to a last-minute decision for his party, the Democratic Center, to allow militants to also participate.
In this context, the party’s candidate, Óscar Iván Zuluaga, will make his vice-presidential formula official this Friday. Is regarding Alicia Eugenia Silva.
In addition, it is not ruled out that the party’s militants be allowed the freedom to can vote in the consultations of this March 13.
In fact, the highest leader of the community, former President Álvaro Uribe, also recognized that the participation of his ranks was almost imminent in these consultations.
But Zuluaga, the official candidate, faces internal distrust due to its low popularity, to the point that his teammates openly say that they would prefer to support other candidates with more possibilities. For this reason, Duque’s revelation on Blu Radio (“I will vote in the consultations”) served as a prelude to the timonazo that the Democratic Center might give.
It is known that the president moved chips so that Zuluaga would join the Team for Colombia and thus measure himself in the consultation with David Barguil, Federico Gutiérrez, Alejandro Char, Enrique Peñalosa and Aydeé Lizarazo, and he did not like it when he – following some contempt towards the party by some of that coalition– decided not to join and give up any attempt to ally with them.
Days following that, the party sent the directive prohibiting support for candidates other than Zuluaga. This medium even learned that said guideline, signed by Nubia Stella Martínez, director of the party, and Uribe –who was not aware of the communication–, was written under pressure from Zuluaga, uncomfortable with the imminent infidelity of his teammates. EL COLOMBIANO contacted Martínez, but received no response.
But hours before Zuluaga’s announcement this Friday, Uribe’s stance had lightened. He acknowledged the intentions of some members of his party to request a ballot in the consultation, despite the official guideline. “It is simply recognizing that Óscar Iván is the party’s candidate and that there are people who vote in the consultation and others who do not,” he told EL COLOMBIANO.
personalities like Maria Fernanda Cabal and Edward Rodriguez they insistently sought to be given the freedom to vote on March 13. And although the possible decision would clarify the panorama, it puts on the table, once once more, the disorder of the Democratic Center.
The noise of the last weeks of Alejandro Char with the proposal to the Cabal to be its vice president, while it criticizes Federico Gutiérrez, who has the support of more than one member of Uribismo, plus the support of other sectors for the conservative candidate David Barguil They are the perfect recipe for expose that Zuluaga would have lost a large part of his support.
Now it remains to be seen how the most important figures of the uribista community will move with the new movements that would shake the right.