Sergio Fajardo, former presidential candidate.
Photo: Mauricio Alvarado Lozada
In the midst of the taunts launched between President Gustavo Petro and former President Iván Duque regarding the political panorama of 2026, Sergio Fajardo joined the conversation with a trill this Thursday. “What a nightmare! Seeing and hearing is believing: Petro vs. “Duke?”, expressed the former governor of Antioquia on his social networks.
“The vast majority of Colombia is ‘mad’ of this polarization. It is the turn for common sense and decency to heal this battered, troubled and hopeless Colombia,” continued Fajardo, who has already been involved in the premature debate on the next presidential elections.
This Thursday, from the Asobancaria Congress, Iván Duque proposed the formation of a broad coalition of various sectors to protect Colombian democracy. He suggested the creation of a ‘great national force’ with a single candidate to confront the progressivism represented by Gustavo Petro.
“I believe that what is required today is for all those who want to be president in 2026 to come to the fore once and for all and to begin to agree on the possibility of Colombia having a great national republican alliance where, through a consultation mechanism, the unification of who can represent a true alternative can occur,” was the idea that Duque launched from Cartagena.
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In response, President Petro said: “They are scared.” From Aguachica, César, where he was at the “Advance Agrarian Reform” event, the president said: “If everyone has to join together against me it will be because we are doing something good. It will be because we have an importance. And I say ‘yes, why not?'” “We are going to win again in 2026,” he added.
Fajardo, who with his trill demonstrates his intention to position himself as an alternative to polarization, surpassed by Petro in the 2018 presidential race by just over 256 thousand votes. He is the co-founder of Dignidad y Compromiso.
For her part, Isabel Zuleta, senator of the Historical Pact, questioned Duque’s proposal, saying that some are bothered by the possibility of his re-election, but they did not protest when Duque “governed in a foreign body.”
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Recently the congresswoman was in the spotlight for her statements about her desire to see Gustavo Petro re-elected. “It is not President Petro who is talking about re-election. There are many of us activists who want a re-election, and we say it upfront and we are promoting it. We believe that President Petro must be in government for many more years to achieve some change,” she said in an interview.
Meanwhile, the House representative for the Democratic Center, Óscar Villamizar, expressed concern about the potential for a “dictatorship.” “And who is not going to be scared that a dictatorship is consolidated and this inept government is prolonged?” wrote the Uribista congressman.
Along the same lines, the senator of the Democratic Center Miguel Uribe pointed out that it is the Colombians who feel “scared” before their government. Uribe accused Petro of having weakened the health system, increased insecurity, and of threatening citizens’ pensions and savings. In addition, he questioned Petro’s policies towards businessmen and the persecution that, according to him, they suffer from the government.
