The elections that will result in the name of the country's new president are getting closer and closer. Gustavo Petro, who according to several of the polls conducted over the last few months would be the favorite candidate of Colombians, would be getting closer and closer to former Colombian President Ernesto Samper. According to the country's specialized media outlets, while Gustavo Petro was meeting with members of the Green Party, congressmen Roy Barreras and María José Pizarro held a meeting with former President Samper and his son, former Senate candidate Miguel Samper Strouss.
“With President Samper we are united by history. We share spaces like the Puebla group. And well, what we did was start talking about the organization and participation of sectors of the center, to support the Historical Pact,” said the representative and now senator-elect María José Pizarro, through her social networks.
“He obviously told us that his greatest interest has to do with the continuity and commitment of the Pact, in the realization of the peace agreements and with a new economic model, to manage the post-pandemic. We are committed to an era of peace that cannot be postponed for our country,” he added.
“From the Puebla Group we have obviously been talking about the solidarity model that we are proposing, which we can obviously emphasize. And with Miguel Samper, her son, a whole series of considerations were made about comprehensive rural land reform,” said the official.
It has been emphasized that the congressmen have in mind to meet again with the Sampers to chart the route of what would be the common issues between what would be the Petro government, in the event of winning the elections, and both politicians.
“We visited former President Ernesto Samper and his son Miguel Samper, with Roy Barreras to talk about the future of peace, comprehensive rural reform and a new solidarity model of development for Colombia. We share the conviction of an unpostponable era of peace for Colombia,” wrote María José Pizarro on her Twitter account.
Roy Barreras, for his part, highlighted, among the things that were talked about, that “Sisbén, the 14th allowance of teachers, the creation of Mincultura are milestones that mark social liberalism absolutely compatible with the Historical Pact. Here he talks about the future with former President Samper, former Senate candidate Miguel Samper Strouss,” he said.
“I received with Miguel Samper the visit of Roy Barreras and María José Pizarro. Since I don't have parliamentarians to negotiate, I told them that one thing is the Liberal Party and another is liberalism. The latter would be with peace and the end of Gaviria's neoliberal model. I noticed them convinced,” Samper commented on his Twitter.
These meetings coincide with the fact that Gustavo Petro had previously mentioned that the Historical Pact was working to take a leap further. “On the day of my registration, I presented a few words that sought to convene all political, social forces, citizens in general that achieved the desire to make peace a reality in Colombia, it could be the cement that would allow a great convergence beyond the Historical Pact, of national majorities to build the national government that was looming. We have already had answers”, he explained at the time.
“Fuerza Ciudadana decided to enter this idea of the great convergence for peace. Now you, most of the Green and, hopefully later, the entire Green Party will decide to enter into this convergence to build collectively,” he added.
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