Sergio Fajardo and Jorge Robledo threw themselves into the ring: they announce a new party for the regional elections

Sergio Fajardo and Jorge Robledo announce a new match. In the photo: Congresswoman Jennifer Arias and directors of Dignity and Citizen Commitment. supplied.

Ten months after the territorial elections were held in Colombia, political alliances began to shake: the leftist party Dignidad, of the hardened former senator Jorge Enrique Robledo, and the Compromiso Ciudadano movement of former presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo, announced their union to compete in the next elections.

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What the two ex-candidates of the Centro Esperanza Coalition want is to merge into a new political party with which, from now on, they will seek to compete for all elected positions in the country. Far from extremes, they will seek to establish themselves as a new political force.

Meeting between Sergio Fajardo and Jorge Robledo to build the party that sees the light of day in Colombia today. @dignidad_col/Twitter.

According to what was announced at a press conference, on Wednesday, January 25, it will be next February 18 when the leaders of these two forces, from the center and the left, make the community official and, then, the pre-candidates are defined. the party’s statutes, the program and define who will lead that group.

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The meeting was attended by several of the visible faces of the two movements, not only were Sergio Fajardo and Jorge Robledo, but also the representative to the Chamber Jennifer Pedraza, from Dignidad, who has a seat in Bogotá.

In the midst of his answers, Fajardo assured that he would set up a “separate ranch” from his old political allies such as the brothers Carlos Fernando and Juan Manuel Galán, of the New Liberalism, the former governor of Boyacá Carlos Amaya, of the Green Alliance; and Juan Fernando Cristo, who now has a group called En Marcha.

“Doing politics means, among other things, participating in elections. We are going to be in all the places in Colombia where we have people identified with this construction that we are doing. We are summoning many people who have not found a political location and we invite them to participate and look at our principles”, Fajardo assured.

Sergio Fajardo will move away from the members of the Centro Esperanza Coalition to launch, together with Jorge Robledo, a new party. Twitter @sergio_fajardo

In addition, they said that they do not want to be considered like the old collectivities that exist in Colombia, but that Colombians conceive of them as a new “reliable” political house.

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Within their flags, according to several of those who intervened, will be the fight against corruption, ending clientelism and moving away from traditional politicians as the Historical Pact would do, which is the government bench, according to Jennifer Pedraza.

One of the doubts that has plagued citizens the most is whether Jorge Robledo and Sergio Fajardo would compete for any of the positions that will be disputed in October. Both were emphatic that, for now, they have not made those decisions. Although Fajardo said that he will not compete for mayor of Bogotá, Robledo did leave the door open and assured that this will define him in February when, in the company of the other party members, they define who their bishops will be for those dignities.

“We believe in the importance of organizations and the decisions that are made about candidacies will come when they are made. They will be the determinations that the organization makes at the different levels of national life throughout this year”, added Jorge Robledo, who spent more than twenty years in the Congress of the Republic.

In the same way, as this new community joins the long list of so-called alternative political forces, they will promote productive development and the environment, women, diversity and rights, universal rights, education and youth, as well as security and international relations.

Likewise, the new heads of this party invited those interested in competing for a mayoralty or governorship together with them to, from now on, postulate their names. To carry out the procedure, they must fill out a form that will be on the website www.dignidad.co, and that they can also find on the social networks of the new movement.

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