The people of Atlántico are getting ready to elect next Sunday, March 13, those they consider the most appropriate to represent the department in the lower house of the Congress of the republic.
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There are a total of 62 candidates who have been distributed into 10 lists to fight, during the 2022 legislative election day for seven seats.
Some repeat their candidacy, others withdrew from the exercise, while a few more tour the Atlantic municipalities to present their proposals. In that sense, the candidates for the House of Representatives for the Atlantic are:
Historical Pact
Agmeth Escaf, Dreisa María Rosas, Gladys Oliveros, Edith Camerano, Fabián Miranda and Yazmer Ramos.
Hope Center Coalition
Beatriz Eugenia Vélez, William Corredor, Henry Manuel García, Ethiel Manjarrés, Norman Alarcón and Arnold Gómez.
Radical change
Modesto Aguilera, Rober Sanjuan, Gersel Pérez, Lourdes González, Betsy Pérez, José Amar and Luz González.
Commons Party
Germán José Gómez, Onivia Beatriz Esmeral and Raimundo Raish.
Liberal Party
Jezmi Lizeth Barraza, Yaser Julián Eljach, Manuela Martínez, Jasivi Fernández, Uriel Rafael Ávila, Dolcey Óscar Torres and Julio José Mejía.
Look, Just and Liberal Colombia and Democratic Center
Marlys Maldonado, Meliza Barraza, Leonardo Flórez, Elsa Mónica Sandoval, Daniel Pérez, Mónica Utria and Reynel Antonio Castro.
New Liberalism
Sandra Leventhal, Eunice Echavarría, Rossana Pezzano, Zoranilly Valencia, Camilo Ernesto Aguilar, Santander Augusto Pertúz and Olson Wilfrido Ortiz.
party of the u
Luis Carlos Luque, Gastón Jaime Torné, Diana Patricia Macías, Keysi Henríquez, Astrid Velásquez, Oswaldo Rafael Sierra and Carlos Julio Dennis.
Conservative Party
Armando Zabaraín, Mauricio Castro, Alexis González, Nidia Sara Donado, Edwin Alberto Ramírez, Edith Estela Góngora and Adriana de Jesús Blanco.
national salvation
Jesus Raimundo Godoy, Edgar Santander Redondo and Angie Melissa Orozco.
This is the panorama in the department
Two facts are key to understanding this phenomenon: the pandemic and the social outbreak of the previous year
For the research teacher, Alexander Whitethese will be the most atypical elections in the last 30 years of territorial participatory democracy, since 1988.
“Two facts are key to understanding this phenomenon: the pandemic and the social outbreak of the previous year. One aspect that draws attention is the high number of applications. This political fact has no precedent in this department, ”said the also doctor in Political Science to EL TIEMPO.
In this sense, he considers that the number of candidates it strengthens the democratic system and is “a symptom of a slightly more structured vote” in a department where, according to reports from the MOE, the machines mark the electoral pulse.
According to the latest Strategic Measurements survey, the list of the Historic Pact in the Atlantic would be the most voted with 13 percent of voting intentions.
“With this as a reference, it is necessary to highlight that for more than a decade progressive or alternative parties or movements have not won seats in the House of Representatives. A real opportunity opens up to win an alternative or progressive court seat for the Atlantic”, he pointed out.
Regarding Cambio Radical, Blanco maintained: “Everything indicates that the four seats of Cambio Radical will not be altered. The other seats are being disputed by the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party”.
More details and curiosities in this contest
When it became known that the communicator Agmeth Escaf headed the list of the Historical Pact above other similar ones, such as the lawyer Miguel Ángel del Río, a controversy was generated between some members and followers of the party.
Those who protested the determination, assured that the former TV presenter was not in accordance with the ideas of the Pact and even brought up photographs in which he was seen with the presidential candidate Alejandro Char, who at the same time is a direct rival of Gustavo Petro in these elections.
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Men are the majority: of the 62 candidates for the House of Representatives for the department of Atlántico, 29 are women. The New Liberalism and Mira – CJL – CD parties are the ones with the most female candidates, with four on each list.
Under the ‘shadow’ of Aida Merlano: Another candidacy that has given rise to talk is that of Adriana Blanco, for the Conservative party. She was the campaign manager for Aida Merlano in 2018 and is now Senator Laureano Acuña’s formula.
Among the group of those seeking to continue in the House of Representatives are: Armando Zabaraín, who is head of the Conservative party list; Jezmi Barraza, Modesto Aguilera and José Amar, from Cambio Radical.
Meanwhile, the representatives who have decided to leave in this period are: César Lorduy (Radical Change), who ran for the Senate, Karina Rojano (Radical Change), whose father registered his candidacy for the Senate for the Liberal party; and Martha Villalba (Party of the U), who would go for the Government of the Atlantic.
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