Petro vs Hernández: See the results of the latest polls less than two weeks before the second round in Colombia

The anodyne electoral campaign of the presidential ballot candidates in Colombiathe leftist Gustavo Petro and the independent populist Rodolfo Hernandezenters the last two weeks, with uncertainty and the polls showing a very tight result.

The latest polls show a slight drop in Hernandezformer mayor of Bucaramanga, the country’s fifth largest city, since he entered the second round to be held on June 19 and was presented as the favorite, despite the fact that Petro had always led the voting intention in all the polls prior to the first round.

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In the fourth installment of “presidential tracking”, made by the firm GAD3 for the RCN channel and published this Monday, Hernández went from 50.4 to 48.1%, while the left-wing candidate cuts the distance and goes from 45.6 to 48.1%.

It is the same trend as the previous ones, where both candidates are very close, due to the margin of error of the samples. the of the National Consulting Center (CNC) on Friday for the magazine Semana is the only one that at the moment puts Petro ahead, with 44.9% compared to 41% of the “engineer”and of Yanhaas for RCN Y The FM published on Sunday gives 42% to Hernández and 41% to Petroformer mayor of Bogota.

PROGRAM ON NETWORKS

Hernandeza billionaire construction businessman, is still dedicated to explaining his government program on social networks, after campaigning in the first under the almost sole slogan of fighting corruption and promoting austerity policies.

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In this sense, today he published ten proposals for “women” to “solve what (President Iván) Duque could never do, wasting 4 years of the life of the country”, among which are creating “loans with low interest rates for women entrepreneurs” or a “comprehensive care system that recognizes unpaid work, provides support and reduces burdens”.

He also insisted that he will donate his “salary so that we can give scholarships to 30 poor boys and that they can study the career they want”, along the lines of other proposals against austerity that he has launched with a demagogic tint.

MORE SUPPORT FROM THE CENTER

Hernandezwho does not usually hold public events and has declined to go to debates because he thinks he cannot explain his proposals in that format, made an appearance today at a congress of the National Federation of Cocoa Growers, which was held in Bucaramanga.

This style of campaigning has led to an adaptation of Petrowho has left public squares behind, where before tens of thousands of people he feels comfortable giving long speeches to his followers to make more spontaneous appearances with specific communities or productive sectors.

After spending Friday night fishing in the Magdalena River with a family of fishermen from the department of Tolima, on Saturday he accompanied another family of silleteros, a traditional trade from Antioquia, making cargo chairs with flowers, and this Monday he decided to have lunch with some miners in Boyacá.

In addition, both campaigns continue to receive support from sectors of the center. Today, after Hernández refused to make a joint government program with the former candidate of the center, Sergio Fajardo, (who was fourth on May 29), the latter reaffirmed that he is not going to vote for Petro and that he will announce his vote soon.

Meanwhile, the New Liberalism, one of the formations that make up the Centro Esperanza Coalition for which Fajardo ran, has also expressed its support for Hernández.

“Rodolfo Hernandez It represents an emotion of the center that, it must be recognized, in the Hope Center Coalition we did not know how to interpret. That center does not want Uribe continuity, but it does not believe in Gustavo Petro’s proposal either,” said Juan Manuel Galán, who was a presidential candidate for New Liberalism, announcing the support of that force in a virtual act in which Mr. 77 year old candidate.

Source: Elcomercio

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