Paola Holguín has already launched a campaign for president, sending a message to those who voted for Peter: “They knocked him down, my son.”

The road to choosing who will be the candidate of the Democratic Center for the presidential election in 2026 has already begun. Just as senators Miguel Uribe and María Fernanda Cabal are progressing in their meetings with the regions, the same is happening with Paola Holguín, who held a series of meetings to announce the program proposal of her government and took the opportunity to send a message to the voters of President Gustavo Petro.

Congresswoman, close to former head of state Álvaro Uribe Vélezhe was the protagonist of the meeting where he put his postulates on the table and measured the acceptance rate of his speech in the communities. However, what attracted the most attention was the way in which she referred to what for her was an ideological fraud on the part of the President, in relation to his campaign promises and the fulfillment of those promises years into his mandate.

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“This is a party that will continue to defend the people’s dialogueand not their dialogue, which is meant to sow hatred and division. “We want a united Colombia, above parties and ideologies,” said the senator who has been part of this representation since its foundation in 2013, which has also become one of the main political forces in the country, today in opposition; but between 2018 and 2022 as the governing party.

Then he announced a strategy to bring together all those disillusioned by their trust in the political project of progressivismthe same one that is currently riddled with scandals such as the National Disaster Risk Management Unit (Ungrd) scandal and others such as the investigation by the National Electoral Council (CNE) for alleged campaign suspension violations; for more than $5,355 million.

“It doesn’t mean to criticize those who voted for Peter, it doesn’t mean to judge, it doesn’t mean to point the finger at them, today what we have to say is: “You got knocked down, mijita, come help us rebuild Colombia.. Because we must have (sic) the capacity for unity, we must have (sic) greatness. “Colombia needs austerity measures, otherwise we will continue to pay higher and higher taxes so that (Verónica) Alcocer has a masseuse,” the senator added, pointing to the presidential family.

In addition, he brought to light cases where the executive was interrogated due to the loss of resources. “(…) to steal the money, like they stole it with the tankers (Ugrd)with community pots as they spend them in Rtvc,” added the congresswoman, who reiterated the need to “tighten up her pants” and leave behind the waste she said characterized the current mandate in various departments of the state’s organizational chart.

So he insisted that transparency and a frontal fight against corruption was needed, but not before launching sharp barbs in sectors related to Peter. “They kept accusing us of corruption. Corrupt? “They are for thieves!”urged Holguín, who wants to fight for the party nomination; In other words, the “blessing” of former President Uribe, who would apparently have the final say beyond requests for an electoral process open to the public.

Although there is still at least a year and eight months left before the first round, it is clear that the selection process within the community is underway and potential candidates have begun to measure themselves in the territories as part of the process that is coming. balance the alternative and mainstream sectors.