Former Afro-Colombian minister to run for Fajardo's colleague

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Bogotá, March 17 African descendant and former environment minister Luis Gilberto Murillo will be Vice President Sergio Fajardo, one of the Colombian presidential candidates in the May 29 elections. “It is a great honor to be Sergio's vice president,” Murillo said in a video this Thursday. He described Fajardo, who won the Union Centro Esperanza last Sunday as a “good friend.” In a video on social networks, Fajardo said that Murillo, who also served as governor of the Chocó department for several months in 2012, “has all the conditions to become president of Colombia.” Murillo, 55 years old, along with Fajardo, has “the best proposals to lead change in Colombia”, emphasizing that “power is in the region”, highlighting its origin in the Chocó jungle, one of the most neglected departments with the least national presence in the country. Choco jungle bordering the North Pacific Ocean and Panama. Fajardo, who won third place in the last elections of 2018, is at a disadvantage in this election after receiving fewer votes in the consultations than in the left and right consultations, and fewer votes than the second candidate to the left treaty. Francia Márquez, a historical consultation. Left-wing candidate Gustavo Petro (Gustavo Petro) won almost 4.5 million votes in the party's internal consultation in Sunday's presidential election and the internal consultation of the Colombian right-wing coalition team, former Mayor of Medellín Federico Gutierrez, and Pajardo received barely more than 720,000 people taken care of. The Center began its candidacy as a union of characters, with candidates from the Greens and intellectuals such as Fajardo, Alejandro Gaviria or Jorge Enrique Robedo, but after many conflicts and internal fights, it has resulted in a clearly divided consultation. When parliamentary elections were also held the day after the consultation vote, Fajardo promised that the union was a “great political challenge” and a change for Colombia. He also said he was going to “call them, invite them, and encourage them to participate in the changes that we proposed” to 8 million people who did not participate in the elections. In addition to those who came out of the consultation, the presidential candidate is Ingrid Betancourt, and the populist former mayor of Bucaramanga Rodolfo Hernandez must present and formalize the vice president's formula to accompany the race by tomorrow from the first round of May 29. So far, only Betan Court and Hernandez have announced the second. In the first case, retired Colonel José Luis Esparza, who assisted in the operation to liberate Betancourt, and Marelen Castillo, an agricultural industry engineer and vice-chancellor of the university, is the case of the former mayor of Bucaramanga. time/jga/drh (Photo)