Luis Felipe Henao, Fico's new head of debate, will have the mission of bringing unions and Radical Change closer to the Coalition for Colombia

The arrival of the former Minister of Housing, City and Territory of the previous government of Juan Manuel Santos, Luis Felipe Henao, in the campaign of candidate Federico Gutiérrez — announced this afternoon as the head of the debate — will have the function of bringing the unions closer to the program proposal of Antioquia, second in the polls for the presidential elections in May.

Henao, also close to the natural leader of the Radical Change party, Germán Vargas Lleras, will, according to the political liars, have the role of keeping the former vice president at the forefront of the political support of Federico Gutiérrez's campaign.

For the candidate of Coalition for Colombia, “Luis Felipe is a person who has worked in the public sector and in the private sector, who knows Colombia, and knows what needs to be done,” he said in the presentation to the media before the arrival of his new debate chief.

For Henao, joining the campaign is not just a personal commitment. He considered that Fico, as mayor of Medellín, made his government plan a reality, which prompted him to accept the responsibility offered by Gutiérrez:

The arrival of Luis Felipe Henao in the campaign will serve to integrate a team of regions that came from the times of the Team for Colombia: Aydeé Lizarazo, Dilian Francisca Toro, David Barguil, Alex Char, Enrique Peñalosa and Juan Carlos Echeverry, who are part of the collegiate leadership and political liaisons that seek to bring voters together, opinion leaders and unions, in the campaign for the Presidency of the Republic.

Henao stressed that his task will be to bring together the above-mentioned sectors around the right-wing candidate: “We are going to invite all political parties, but we also invite social leaders, teachers, unions and all those who believe that it is better to build than to destroy.”

The functions assigned to former Minister Luis Felipe Henao will be to assume the political spokesperson for the campaign and the coalition, to lead and articulate regionally, as well as to act as a spokesperson for the public debate of the campaign and to jointly lead the National Programme Committee.

Who is Fico Gutiérrez's head of debate

The new head of debate was born in Medellín in 1979, he has an extensive career as an academic, lawyer and teacher in different branches of law.

He graduated from the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario with a specialization in Business Law from the same institution; he is also a specialist in Higher Studies in Current Problems of Criminal Law and is currently a PhD candidate in Criminal Law at the University of Salamanca, Spain.

He was the successor of Germán Vargas Lleras in the Housing portfolio during the Santos administration, after he ceded the position to accompany the then-president in the administration to obtain approval of the frustrated Plebiscite for Peace.

In addition to his time in the public sector, he is the executive leader of the construction project of the Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo Cancer Treatment and Research Center (CTIC).

According to Valor Analitik, this project in Santander had an investment of more than one billion pesos and will be inaugurated in the second half of 2022.

Henao starred in a curious episode at a Fito Paéz concert, which took place in Bogotá. Here is the written report of the anecdote: Korean name of Fito Páez in a concert and former minister thought they were choirs for Fico Gutiérrez

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