Juan Daniel Oviedo, the “man of Dane”, made his candidacy for mayor of Bogotá official: “We are going to build on what has been built”

Juan Daniel Oviedo will be the first to start the campaign for the Mayor of Bogotá. Twitter.

The “man of the Dane”, as Juan Daniel Oviedo is colloquially known, made it official and launched himself as a candidate for mayor of Bogotá. On the morning of this Tuesday, February 7, from the Enrique Olaya Herrera National Park, in the heart of the capital, he met with several of his possible voters to begin requesting the signatures that will allow him a space in the first round of the district elections. October.

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The first support that the former director of the National Administrative Department of Statistics (Dane) received during the government of Iván Duque was from his mother, Nidia Naranjo, who was excited to become the first citizen to support Oviedo in his wishes to succeed to Claudia López in what is considered the second most important popular election position in Colombia.

“The first and most important signature is from that person who inspires and generates great confidence, who is my mother. She has a history of difficulties that has allowed us to share this city project that we want to offer to the public,” said Oviedo.

Juan Daniel Oviedo (Colprensa-Mariano Vimos)

The event was attended by several other Bogotanos who came to that emblematic sector of the capital to support Oviedo in his first attempt at electoral politics. As some of them asked him for photos and congratulated him on his aspiration, the current disputant of the Liévano Palace was grateful.

“That is what motivates me the most to participate in this democratic process for the mayor of Bogotá. People are seeing that there is an awareness of being able to serve and be useful to all citizens. Above all, solving the problems that the city has from an honest and sincere conversation like the one today”, assured Juan Daniel Oviedo, amidst the emotion.

His statements to the Colombian press came after the end of the athletic race to which he summoned his supporters and followers, who did not hesitate to support him in this unusual way of launching himself as a candidate to lead the largest -and chaotic- city in the country.

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The former director of DANE mentioned that he will begin the process of collecting signatures to be able to participate in the elections, which is why he will be absent from the journalistic exercise

Oviedo, which has not only become known for its outstanding work in the Dane, but also for being an active member of the LGBTIQ+ community, will have to gather more than 150,000 significant groups to endorse its candidacy and thus make its way into the broad bouquet of applicants to reach the District.

At the event, the former official revealed that several citizens volunteered to walk the streets of the capital to collect signatures to help him get to the ballot for the first electoral round. Now, he will go to the towns in the south of Bogotá, such as San Cristóbal and Rafael Uribe, to seek more votes and signatures.

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In other parts of his statement, Oviedo assured that he will continue to run for mayor independently and said that, these months, he will focus primarily on collecting the signatures that will allow him to “know, first-hand, the faces and places of the problems of citizenship in Bogotá”.

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Perhaps one of the main bets that the next president will have will be to define the future of the Bogotá metro after the fight between the mayor Claudia López and the president Gustavo Petro, on whether to keep it high or underground. In this regard, Oviedo described the situation as “sad” and “disappointing” and announced what he will do if he becomes the replacement for the current mayor; yes, he threw darts at the Executive.

“We are not obsessed with whether it is aerial or underground, but that it is a project that respects this principle that we want to value in our protest, which is to build on what has been built. It is disappointing that in the National Development Plan the national government manifests its interventionist tone, that it wants to have a majority position in the boards of directors of the transport systems that it co-finances, and at the same time authorizes the modification of the Land Management Plan, which was one of the advances where Bogotá already has shares in the metro”, said Oviedo.

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