The 60-year-old Franco-Colombian, has put the fight against corruption at the heart of its political program.
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Twenty years ago, Ingrid Betancourt was abducted from a road from southern Colombia, while she was a presidential candidate. She spent six years in the hands of the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), demobilized in 2016. Today 60 years old, she announced her intention to briguise again the presidency of her country.
“I will work tireless from now, from sunrise to be your president,” said the former hostage, Tuesday, January 19, at a press conference in Bogota. At two months of the primary and four months of the presidential election of May 29, the decision of M me Betancourt created the surprise. Since its liberation, in 2008, the ex-hostage has always lived abroad, mainly in France. She has French nationality and, during the years of captivity, Paris had not spared her efforts to get her release.
“The application of Ingrid is symbolically important for Colombian democracy, considers Jorge Ivan Cuervo, professor of political science in Bogota. The country has changed in twenty years. Thanks to the peace agreement signed in 2016, the FARC , who became a political party, and Ingrid, who was their victim, find themselves side by side in the democratic game. “
Cap unchanged
On his Twitter account, M me betancourt is defined as “mom, grandmother, Colombian and free”. At the end of 2021, the electoral authorities resurrected his party, Verde Oxigeno, who joined the Centrist Coalition called “Coalition of Hope”. “I’m here to finish what I started in 2002, with many of you, because I think Colombia is finally ready to change course,” said the old hostage, announcing his candidacy for The primary of the coalition of hope.
Ingrid Betancourt, she has not changed Cape. As twenty years ago, she put the fight against corruption at the heart of her political program. Since Tuesday, presidential prechargy denounces interviews a country “sequestered by corruption and politician devices”. It also emphasizes the cause of women, climate urgency and the fight against insecurity. M me Betancourt, who supported the peace process and defended the rights of the victims, arises as a candidate of reconciliation. In a good centrist candidate, she considers that we must “overcome the extremes”.
“The application of Ingrid is a good news for the coalition of hope that lacked women!”, Senator Angelica Lozano says. The six candidates registered for the primary of this coalition are men, whites. The former Mayor of Medellin, Sergio Fajardo, Green Party candidate, is best placed to win this ballot.
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