Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez is the candidate for the Presidency of a sector of the right in Colombia

The former mayor of Medellín Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez prevailed this Sunday in the coalition consultation Team for Colombia and he is the virtual candidate of a sector of the right in the presidential elections of May 29.

With 51.26% of the votes counted, Gutierrezpopularly known asphyco”, obtained a little more than a million votes, equivalent to 54.90%, followed by the conservative senator David Barguilwith nearly 300,000 votes (16.38%).

In third was Alex Charlie, former mayor of Barranquilla, with 270,340 votes (14.80%); In fourth place was Senator Aydee Lizarazowith 135,000 ballots (7.39%), and in fifth was the former mayor of Bogotá Enrique Penalosa with 119,079 votes (6.51%).

Despite the scrutiny of the coalition Team for Colombia goes in the middle Gutierrez he has been at the helm almost from the start and the 700,000-vote lead he has over his rivals makes him virtually unattainable.

Gutierrez47, said today when voting in Medellin that he is “excited to see how Colombia the whole came out early to vote” and added that the next step is to “unite the country in a single purpose”, respecting the differences.

“Colombia cannot remain polarized”affirmed the politician, whose comfortable victory in the Team for Colombia consultation was given as a fact in the latest voting intention polls.

Gutierrezwhich was registered in the consultation through citizen signatures, is considered by many to be a letter from former President Álvaro Uribe in the coalition Team for Colombia for their right-wing positions.

In fact, the uribismo, despite the fact that it has its own presidential candidate, Óscar Iván Zuluaga, left its militants free to participate in the consultations and part of that flow went to the Team for Colombia.

Gutierrez He said today that he is sure of reaching the Presidency “to build a country in order and with opportunities.”

The consultations of the coalitions of the center, the left and the right were held today in parallel to the votes to elect the new composition of the Senate and the House of Representatives, which includes 16 “peace seats” for victims of the armed conflict.

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