Sergio Fajardo is the presidential candidate of the Centro Esperanza Coalition in Colombia

The former governor of Antioquia Sergio Fajardo won this Sunday the consultation of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, a triumph that will allow him to be a candidate for the Presidency of Colombia in the elections on May 29. Fajardo, 65, defeated former Boyacá governor Carlos Amaya, who is second; former senator Juan Manuel Galán; former Minister of Health Alejandro Gaviria, and Congressman Jorge Enrique Robledo.

According to the National Registry of Civil Status, which organizes the elections, 74.83% of the tables were counted, Fajardo obtains 548,194 votes (32.65%), a result that leaves the center as a diminished force and with little margin of its own in the face of the May votes.

Amaya, who became the surprise of this coalition, adds 379,098 (22.58%), a vote that is explained by his speech in favor of the field and against the extremes.

Prince counts 369,965 votes (22.03%), while former Minister Gaviria appears in fourth place, who accumulates 257,831 votes (15.35%).

closed the list Oak Grove with 123,581 (7.36%), a result that leaves him as one of the big losers of the day if one takes into account that he has been an active senator in the last 20 years.

In 2003, Fajardo was elected as the first independent mayor of Medellín.the second most important city in Colombia and capital of the department of Antioquia (northwest).

His good management earned him the award for the best mayor of Colombia in 2007, a recognition granted by the public-private initiative Colombia Leader.

The first attempt to become president of Colombia He did it in 2010, on behalf of the Compromiso Ciudadano movement, but later decided to ally himself with the former mayor of Bogotá Antanas Mockus and became his running mate.

Fajardo has said that in his eventual government he has 31 commitments to the country that have been the result of months of work carried out by 150 people in 19 programmatic tables.

Thus, it will emphasize education, women and food security, among others.

One of its proposals is the creation of five development centers in agriculture, climate change, bioeconomy, industry and health.

FajardoThat was born in Medellin He is a mathematician graduated from the Universidad de los Andes, has a master’s degree and doctorate in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s degree from the Universidad de los Andes.

He began to weave his political ideas from his admiration for former president Carlos Lleras Restrepo and Luis Carlos Galán Sarmiento, a leader assassinated in 1989 in the main square of Soacha, a town near Bogotá, by an alliance of corrupt politicians with cartels of the drug trafficking

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