Colombia Elections 2022: Rodolfo Hernández asks Santandereans to vote and goes home to sleep

Colombian presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernandezthird in the polls, today cast his vote in Bucaramanga, his electoral stronghold, where he invited his countrymen to vote in this first round and, faithful to the self-confidence that characterizes him, said he will go to sleep while the results come out.

Hernandezan independent populist who ran for the League of Anti-Corruption Leaders, voted as soon as the polling station located in Colegio Santander opened, where he arrived wearing the yellow shirt that identifies his movement and accompanied by Rodolfo José Hernández, one of their children.

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“Let it not be that because some Santandereans do not want to vote or remain without voting, we lose the opportunity to represent this land (which) for more than a hundred years (has not had a representative) in the Presidency of the Republic. All Santandereans to vote “, said Hernandez.

The last Colombian president from the department of Santander was Aquileo Parra (1876-1878).

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Hernandeza 77-year-old millionaire construction entrepreneur, has carried out a campaign based on word of mouth, and its message focused exclusively on combating corruption He has permeated the electorate to the point that the latest polls placed him in third place in voting intentions, behind the leftist Gustavo Petro and the rightist Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez.

In the event that none of the candidates obtains half plus one of the ballots today, the two most voted will have to go to a second round on June 19.

With his folksy style, Hernández, when asked after voting about where he will be at four in the afternoon, when the polls close, replied: “in heaven.”

And when asked what he will do while the voting is taking place, he replied that he would go home “to sleep.”

“My wife votes in the afternoon, so I go to pick her up and we go home to sleep,” manifested.

That irreverent style of the “engineer”, as he is also known, also leaves doubts about the seriousness of his government program in case he wins the Presidency, since his speech revolves around the need to end corruption, and little else.

Source: Elcomercio

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