Senator Angelica Lozano seeks to bring Rodolfo Hernandez closer to Sergio Fajardo

After winning internal consultations, the next step for presidential candidates is to seek the support that will mean electoral growth, without sacrificing what they already have. In the case of Sergio Fajardo, when registering his candidacy he assured that “the stage of the comeback is coming” and, although it is not clear how he will do it, he could come on the side of the former mayor of Bucaramanga and also presidential candidate Rodolfo Hernández.

At least this is what Senator Angelica Lozano, a decisive and controversial voice of the Green Party who has influenced several decisions of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, which has led to private clashes and public flirtations over Hernández, has said.

The former mayor Bumangués wrote on the morning of March 24 on Twitter: “I came back, did they miss me?” , apparently for a few days in which he stopped participating in that social network, as he has done in the others despite his virtual campaign.

Among the responses of followers and detractors, he highlighted that of Senator Lozano, who quickly made a proposal to her in a friendly but deeply political tone. “Yes! A lot! Dear Rodolfo Hernandez, when do you have coffee with Sergio Fajardo? ”, he wrote on his own account.

Hernández has said that he will go independent until the first presidential round and sought to distance himself from the other candidates such as Gustavo Petro, Federico Gutiérrez and also from Sergio Fajardo, the four who lead the voting intention according to the polls.

But the interest in forging an alliance with Hernandez had already been expressed by Lozano in internal Coalition discussions. According to W Radio, the day before Fajardo and Luis Guillermo Murillo were registered in the Registry Office, the senator put on the table to replace the former Minister of Environment with the former mayor of Bucaramanga.

“You don't add anything, it's nothing personal (...) the only one who could mark something is Rodolfo Hernández,” Lozano would have said at the meeting, as revealed by the station. The congresswoman later confirmed that it was a suggestion “to save the coalition”, but denied that she had disparaged Murillo. But what is known is that this phrase annoyed the interior of the presidential campaign of the Esperanza Center.

While from the Gutiérrez sector they have sought to approach former presidents Álvaro Uribe and Andrés Pastrana, as well as César Gaviria, with whom Gustavo Petro also held dialogues of the Historical Pact; both Fajardo and Hernández have rejected the former leaders in their campaign and the political parties outside which they have already are.

“No former president has endorsed me, nor do I bid for his support. I don't have political godparents, nor ex-leaders who support me in the shadows. I want to be supported by liberal, conservative and progressive people who want change, who want to build a better country,” said the candidate of the Esperanza Center in an interview with La FM.

With the other members of the campaign, which are reduced to the former presidential candidates of the coalition, they will seek to gain regional support, maintain the bases that had supported others and add some congressmen who were left out of their seats in the last legislative election.

The positions within the Green party regarding Hernandez are not unanimous, while some see him as an independent candidate, others consider that he may be close to Uribe. On the other hand, Angelica Lozano has had approaches since the beginning of the campaign.

When the former mayor of Bucaramanga began his national campaign tour in mid-2020, one of his first meetings was with the senator. “I was more eager to tour his city and see the practice of logic, ethics and aesthetics that his government played for,” Lozano wrote after the meeting.

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