Luis Pérez is one of the candidates who has gradually found visibility for this electoral contest. He was about to enter some of the coalitions, but eventually decided to launch independently. In fact, he was one of the first to announce his vice-presidential formula, lawyer Ceferino Mosquera Murillo.
The Antioquian candidate assures that, if new economies are not created, there will be 100 more years of poverty in Colombia. To that end, it proposes to pave 20,000 kilometers of tertiary roads in order to ensure safety in the countryside, better competitiveness and productivity. He also emphasized that the fourth and fifth generation highways must connect with the rural country.
This brings with it proposals to improve the employment situation and employability in the country. Pérez assures that problems are not solved by giving subsidies. It seeks to generate more than 5 million jobs through a “neobank” that will be financed with 1 billion pesos to lend them to entrepreneurs
In addition, it proposes to massify digital trades, it will also work with cryptocurrencies.
On his Twitter account, he has stated that one of the key points of his government program is the Community Action Boards, he says that he will hire the JAC to carry out infrastructure works.
Pérez assured that he will make one-line tax reforms. One would be to lower the VAT tax from 19% to 16%, in the first 100 days. In dialogue with La República, he said: “Colombia collects 106 billion pesos for VAT and when one goes to Dian, only $32 billion, or 29%, enters the government, and 71% is distributed by large companies and the other is stolen by VAT cartels. We must lower the cost of living and simplify the system. We need to end the suspicious relationship between big capital and the government.”
On a topic that is “in vogue”, pensions, he proposes that they have increases just as the minimum wage rises. It ensures that it will maintain the mixed system (public-private) and that money is “sacred”, no one can touch these funds not even the government.
In the area of education, Luis Pérez said that they will go hand in hand with the “revolution of the new economies”, will promote technological skills that serve the development of the field. In fact, he proposes to create “La Universidad Digital Campesina, this will make the field more productive. With a public digital university in each department, one million university quotas will be created with free tuition for all those without resources.”
The candidate for the Colombia Piensa en Grande movement emphasized on his social networks that:
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