Several armed groups and drug cartels, most notably the National Liberation Army ELN , have been capturing communities once controlled by the FARC , looking to increase their influence in both the mining industry and coca plantation market. One can expect his popularity to drop once again in the months following these protests.
In fact, some of these issues are becoming even more acute with the current pandemic. Recent polls have indicated great support for progressive candidates in Colombia, in line with what happened in October in the local elections. Not all is related to the abovementioned popular discontent regarding the actions of the current President. Attracting foreign investment and creating a strong and healthy private sector can no longer be his main priority. Grades each country on a scale of 0 to , based on ten freedoms, with representing the greatest amount of economic autonomy from government intervention.
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During a time of great national discontent, Colombians will head to the polls in to elect a new president and their representatives in Congress. Legislative elections are scheduled for March The first round of the presidential election will be held on May If no candidate receives a majority of the votes, the two leading candidates will compete in a runoff on June We will occasionally update this page to reflect developments in the campaigns, including other candidates who rise in polls.
AQ also asked a dozen nonpartisan experts on Colombia to help us identify where each candidate stands on two spectrums: left wing versus right wing, and nationalist versus globalist. The results are mapped on the charts below.
He became a senator for the Liberal Party in , where he remained through After 12 years in Congress, he also has several proposals for how to make legislating more transparent and less reliant on politicking. After that, he returned to the university, where he headed its Center for Sustainable Development Goals for Latin America and was later elected president.
He used marijuana to manage his symptoms and side effects of chemotherapy. In a country where 80 percent of the population identifies with some branch of Christianity , Gaviria identifies variously as an atheist and humanist. His current polling at around fourth belies the fact he has the lowest name recognition among current candidates. Besides asking up to a quarter of a million U.
Easily the candidate with the highest name recognition, Petro, 61, is an early frontrunner in the race and the left-leaning consultation is understood as his to lose. Though he lost the runoff to Duque by 16 points ,Petro received 8 million votes nationwide, a new high-water mark for Colombian politicians from the left. Humane Colombia won an important ruling when, on September 16, the Constitutional Court — citing those 8 million votes as evidence of sufficient popular support—overturned a national electoral body decision to deny it political party status.
Along with name recognition, Petro also has one of the highest disapproval ratings among current candidates. Four years ago, his support in polls largely plateaued after the March consultation. Petro has stayed squarely in the spotlight since , thanks to his automatic seat in the Senate as runner-up. A former M guerrilla, he is a consistent mouthpiece for progressive politics in Colombia. On the flip side, his at times combative tone makes many uncomfortable.
His style has arguably been more effective in the legislature than in executive roles.
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