Candidates for the Chamber for Santander talk about their proposals - Candidates - Elections 2022

For the next elections for the House of Representatives for Santander there are 61 candidates from ten parties, movements or coalitions who aspire to keep one of the seven seats that the department has.

EL TIEMPO spoke with the heads of the list of some of these communities and asked them about issues of national interest, such as economic reactivation, as well as about their bets on legislative initiatives that directly benefit Santandereans.

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Luz Dana Leal, Green Party

Luz Dana Leal, Green Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Our party analyzes this panorama taking into account the economy in the post-pandemic, it is necessary that essential goods and services be prioritized: food, developing agriculture and that the peasants are co-owners of the productive chain, health, quality education, housing in the urban and rural. The premises of the welfare state are admirable, principles of the Keynesian model such as the increase in public spending, obviously without corruption, generating additional demand to drive investment and thus reduce unemployment.

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What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Projects for the transformation of Santanderean agriculture, of sustainable tourism, which must be intensified for economic reactivation. We are rich in biodiversity and our provinces are ready to be empowered.

Oscar Villamizar, Democratic Center

Oscar Villamizar, Democratic Center

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

As a party, some programs have been promoted that motivate entrepreneurship and professional training, but this must go hand in hand with tax incentives so that companies generate more employment opportunities in Colombia. The need for forgivable credits for micro, small and medium entrepreneurs, which are the basis of our economy. This should be a public policy and the National Government should strengthen proposals such as Ser Pilo Pays or Matricula Cero, which really offers a future to our young people, who are the ones who see themselves most relegated and without opportunities.

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What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Without a doubt, Santander lacks good roads that facilitate the work of our farmers when transporting their products. The first commitment is with the veredal roads, since they generate development in the countryside and benefit all the producing families. In the same way, we will continue promoting initiatives that strengthen the laws that help our peasants to produce with competitive costs.

Juan Sebastian Lopez, Hope Center

Juan Sebastian Lopez, Hope Center

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Defend the Colombian internal market by renegotiating the FTAs ​​that turned out to be bad deals for the country. Real support for industry and agriculture with reduced taxes on small and medium-sized businesses, cheap credit and increased tariffs.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Modernization of the Ecopetrol refinery in Barrancabermeja for a responsible energy transition. Reactivation of the Santander fashion system, footwear and clothing. Dual lane between Bucaramanga and Barbosa and a real road plan for Santander. Municipal and regional aqueducts, which are so needed. Navigability on the Magdalena River. Among others.

Total defense of water, the Santurbán páramo and other strategic ecosystems in the region. The ancestral expressions of small-scale mining must be respected and a responsible transition towards ecotourism and other activities with less environmental impact must be made.

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Hector Mantilla, Conservative Party

Hector Mantilla, Conservative Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

As a candidate for the House of Representatives for Santander, I consider it pertinent that for there to be an economic reactivation, entrepreneurship must be supported and encouraged through soft loans and tax forgiveness (such as rent within the first two years), under certain parameters. that allow monitoring to avoid tax fraud; In addition to proposing that already established companies can have greater competitiveness in the market through lower tariffs on raw materials.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

I have always believed that Colombians are people pushed forward, with great business ideas that many times they cannot execute because they do not have the necessary tools; Therefore, I think it is important to promote an entrepreneurship law that provides opportunities for people to create a business or legalize the one they already have. This would undoubtedly boost the economic development of the country in the different regions. On the other hand, it is necessary to support the productive agricultural sectors of the country. We know that the field is extremely fundamental and needs guarantees so that its products can really be sold and generate profits.

Diego Frank Ariza, Liberal Party

Diego Frank Ariza, Liberal Party

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

The employment crisis can be overcome to the extent that we address the problems of sectors with high potential in Colombia, such as agribusiness, housing and manufacturing.

Direct foreign and national investment should be oriented towards low-impact infrastructure improvement programs, and thus increase the massive hiring of local labor.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

The main bet must be to overcome the great divergence between the country’s regions. In the first place, continue strengthening infrastructure projects at all levels, but mainly those that allow production centers to communicate efficiently with the national market.

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Erika Sánchez, League of Governors Movement

Erika Sánchez, League of Governors Movement

What proposal does your party or movement have to reactivate the country after the pandemic and in the face of the employment crisis and possible inflation?

Attack head-on the causes that today have more than 22 million Colombians in poverty. The main cause that the League has identified is corruption, which implies the diversion of more than 50 billion pesos a year, which, if they were not stolen, would serve to be applied to investment and with it favor the millions of poor , which are, among other reasons, because they do not have permanent and decent sources of employment.

What regional projects are they committed to promoting and obtaining national resources?

Act as a regional caucus. The regional projects that I will promote must be agreed with the governments of the department and the municipalities, in order to ensure that they are consistent with the respective development plans and thus avoid the promotion of projects that come out of a bucket, often contrary to the real needs of the community and only conceived with a political criteria of paying electoral favors.

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Gloria Arizabaleta, the ex of Roy Barreras who wants to reach the Chamber - Cali - Colombia

Gloria Arizabaleta is a candidate for the House of Representatives for the Historical Pact in Valle del Cauca. This lawyer, a specialist in human rights and criminal law, ranks second on the list of this coalition, which has been called leftist.

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The name of Gloria Arizabaleta is not well known, but if it is confirmed that she is the ex-wife of Senator Roy Barreras, things change. However, This woman from Cali wants to make it clear that she is a candidate and not an ex-wife. She complains that they always see her as Barrera’s ex-wife, even though he has not been her only husband.

“They say that I carry an ‘inri’ of being the ex-wife of Roy Barreras. Unfortunate, that we women have that ‘inri’. I am Gloria Elena Arizabaleta Corral and I have had other ex-husbands. And why aren’t they rather my ex-husbands and not me their ex-wife?” Arizabaleta said in an interview with the radio station La W several months ago.

She added that in Colombia “women are only for you gentlemen, and that should not be so.”

In communication with this newspaper, this lawyer, with ten years of experience in the Attorney General’s Office, ratified that position and added that while she was the wife of Roy Barreras, she saw politics from, precisely, the barrier, next to the former senator, but It’s time to do politics on your own and without having the label of being the ex-wife of the legislator.

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However, Arizabaleta is a co-team member of her ex-husband in the campaign for the Historical Pact, the movement in which he is committed to the side of the pre-candidate Gustavo Petro. In fact, last week, during Petro’s visit to some municipalities in Valle del Cauca, the ex-husband couple was seen at various times and in various settings. Yes, together, but not close.

The main proposal of this jurist, to reach Congress, is to seek a gender education, that is, that mothers who are heads of households and women have more access to free and quality education.

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electoral contest of the Chamber of Representatives in Cesar - Other Cities - Colombia

Looking ahead to the legislative elections on March 13 this year, there are many issues and alternatives that the 28 candidates for the House of Representatives for Cesar.

In this scenario, applicants are distributed in seven lists: Conservative Party, U Party, MIRA-Democratic Center Political Party Coalition, Hope Center Coalition, Liberal Party Coalition – Just Free Colombia, Historical Pact Coalition and Green Alliance.

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Within the framework of this political contest, the strategy of repeating seats by the current representatives predominates: José Eliecer Salazar López, Alfredo Ape Cuello Baute and Christian José Moreno Villamizar.

traditional families

It’s not going to change anything. They are the same with the same, that is the reality! There is a regime entrenched in power that manages social conglomerates with money

The congressman from Cambio Radical, Eloy Chichí Quintero Romero, confirmed last year that he will no longer aspire to the congress; his heir, Carlos Felipe Quintero, aspires to be elected in this new period.

A panorama that for some segment of opinion does not represent anything new, symbolizes traditional families and they disqualify them, because according to them, their campaigns are the rhetoric of politicians, without common purposes for the community.

“It’s not going to change anything. They are the same with the same, that is the reality! There is a regime entrenched in power that manages social conglomerates with money”, a concept in which several political analysts in the region agree.

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They aspire to a flow of voters
beyond the political machines

They are candidates who lack visibility, identify people. I don’t think anything will happen because they are not very representative. One that others risk, but without significance in this scenario “

In this range there are also new faces with marked ideological differences, such as Luís Fernando Padilla Pérez of the Center of Hope Coalition, David Sierra Daza of the Democratic Center party, Jacqueline Null Petro Jiménez of the Historic Pact Coalition and Luis Enrique Morales of the Parido Verde.

This political offer bets on the ‘roll in Congress’, they aspire to a flow of voters beyond the political machines.

“My motto is David defeating the Goliaths, that is, the political strongmen. I take risks because people want to see different faces in Congress. Above all, that he is not questioned in his life story. I trust in the conscientious vote, for the proposals, for the people who can honestly play a role in the congress”, underlined David Sierra Daza, candidate for the Democratic Center.

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“They are candidates who lack visibility, identify people. I don’t think anything will happen because they are not very representative. One that others risk, but without significance in this scenario, “says Carlos Silva, lawyer and law professor.

Seasoned politicians from Cesar, who support some of these lists, assure that the debate of the last elections to the chamber is being repeated.

Based on their experience, they dare to predict that this department will elect four representatives.

“The fight is limited to five to six candidates who fight these four spaces. Who fights it? those who have experience, money to finance campaigns, those who dare to confront them for the first time, it hardly happens, but it happens”, highlights a politician from the region who preferred to omit his name.

The party of U and Conservative would obtain two seats

Eliecer is backed by the Gnecco house, political bosses who have machinery and money.

In the course of these opinions, Carlos Silva analyzes that, as things are going in this contest, the party of U and Conservative, would obtain two seats.

“The candidates of the Conservative Party are quite strong, they are traditional politicians: Alfredo Ape Neck and Libardo Cruz. The latter replaces Fernando De la Peña, who was a representative in other periods. It is expected that they will cast important votes, which will allow them to secure two seats,” explained Silva.

He also argues that the other spaces in the congress will be occupied by the candidates of the U party: Eliecer Salazar and Cristian Moreno.

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“Eliecer is backed by the Gnecco house, political bosses who have machinery and money. Cristian José, has assumed a position contrary to the departmental government. Those opposing leaders would allow him to overcome the votes of the past”, he stressed.

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Elections 2022: Young strike leaders go for a seat in the Antioquia Chamber - Candidates - Elections 2022

Susana Gómez Castaño, better known as Susana Boreal, left anonymity behind on May 5 of last year when he surprised himself by directing, in the midst of the national strike, an orchestra of 400 musicians in the Parque de Los Deseos.

That day, this young orchestra conducting student at the University of Antioquia managed with her baton to make the musicians raise their instruments in protest and that those who were gathered there that afternoon were infected with a peaceful emotion.

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After the video in which she appears directing the unusual concert from an improvised stage was viralized, she received proposals from leaders of different parties inviting her to be part of their political hosts.

She decided to risk it for Human Colombia, today converted into the Historical Pact headed by Gustavo Petro. And he did it because he finds in the ideology of this movement affinity with his thought. She is number 2 on the list and to get there she hopes to get 180,000 votes.

Although she has dedicated herself to music since she was a child, playing violin, piano, bandoneon, guitar and lyrical singing, the greatest motivation she has for becoming involved in politics was a tragedy. Her older sister was murdered by her husband four years ago and this marked her. She had 11 children and was a victim of harassment, physical and psychological abuse and, despite the fact that she reported what was happening to her at police stations, they never paid attention to her.

Susana Boreal, candidate for the Chamber.

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Esneyder Gutierrez

His parents and four other sisters had to take care of the children, even without the economic conditions to assume responsibility. Also the difficulties that she experienced as an artist and as a woman in a macho environment, gave her the strength to fight for women’s rights.

Precisely, delegating to Congress intends to support the decriminalization of abortion and that women have the guarantees to do it safely and free of charge. Likewise, it proposes action against gender violence, also avoiding femicide will be key and access to training on sexual and reproductive rights for women living in rural areas.

Susana began studying pure mathematics at the University of Antioquia, then she turned to music, beginning with lyrical singing for seven semesters. Later, she switched to conducting. She was on an exchange for a year in Belgium, where she studied choral and orchestral music conducting. She returned to Medellin and is only missing the graduation recital to finish her academic studies.

Susana sees in culture and art a fundamental part of the integral formation of any human being, “because through this society can become a set of sentient beings and with this people would not use violence to express their thoughts ”, he assures.

For this, he proposes that artistic training be done from basic education, providing infrastructure, trained personnel and resources; strengthen the houses of culture and formalize street artists, both in rural and urban areas.

With regard to youth, his idea is to build a more sensitive society from diversity, resignifying public spaces and monuments, that the State recognizes responsibility and participation in the acts of violence committed by the public force in the framework of the strike national and in the armed conflict. It will seek for this to be done through programs, monuments and cultural and artistic projects in which young people have been included.

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an objector

Another of the candidates that emerged after last year’s social protests is the social and community leader Jerson Jader González Marulanda, better known as Kannabic Objector.

Kanábico is 30 years old and considers himself a youth actor. He is the son of a feminist woman, Marta Cecilia Marulanda Salas, who has been in community work for more than 49 years. And because of this, Kanábico was linked from an early age in politics where he was trained in human rights, pacifism, local planning and development, community organization, among other aspects that allowed him to understand politics and politics.

His adolescence was key to meeting and reaffirming himself politically with the ideological constructions of antimilitarism and rebelliousness. In addition, of the mobilization scenarios such as the last strikes and the social outbreaks that the country has experienced and from where he has been in defense of human rights and social activism.

Its political purpose is to contribute to the reconstruction and redignification of the country, “a fight to improve the issue that few had a lot, and many that had little, I say this because I lived it and understood it as a duty, ”says Kanábico.

Although his aspirations have always been to become a councilor in Medellín, he decided to aspire to the House of Representatives for Antioquia, endorsed by the Historical Pact where he feels identified.

Kanábico’s proposals is that the social state of law can really be applied. For this, he proposes to rethink the role of the police and military forces, that they be allowed to carry out a task that is in tune with what they are: the Army to defend national sovereignty and that its presence and action be on the border, not in cities. , urban centers or towns, and the Police that apply their role in coexistence and work with the communities and that is attached to the Ministry of the Interior and not to the Ministry of Defence.

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Jader González Marulanda, better known as Kanábico Objector.

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A victim of the conflict

On the other hand, the young candidate Jefferson Echevarry27 years old, says that he was a victim of the armed conflict when, barely a year old, his father was assassinated.

Echeverri was motivated to get into politics by helping less favored families, because a few years ago, when he tried to start a business to support his own, he ran into the obstacle that he couldn’t start a business in public space and there were permits, despite wanting to carry out all the necessary paperwork.

That situation was the opposite to the point of wanting to fight for other people who were going through the same situation, “I felt that the State was against people who wanted to work, even if it was in the informal sector, and even more so with many of us who were even victims. of violence,” says Echeverry.

Jefferson Echeverry, young candidate.

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Esneyder Gutierrez

For this reason, initially he fought to be part of a political group and managed to be a candidate for the Municipal Youth Council (CMJ). Now in his candidacy hand in hand with the Historical Pact, he seeks to represent young people from the perspective that the proposals do not they are designed for a four-year government, but rather a 16-year project.

His proposals are based on the legalization of marijuana and the coca leaf. “The plants are not bad, they are plants with healing and ancestral properties that even their benefits are approved by science and this could bring us development and the long-awaited peace,” says the young candidate.

It also wants to strengthen free education for all, but in an integral way, with resources for transportation, food, among other conditions so that students can prepare themselves in an integral way and then they can be young people who help the progress of society.

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Historical Pact was left out of competition to Chamber in Bolívar - Other Cities - Colombia

The coalition of the Historical Pact in the department of Bolívar was left out of the electoral contests for the House of Representatives.

“There is no list because two of the parties that signed the endorsement for the coalition on December 13 of last year did not sign the new list, which was headed by the Palenquera leader Diorina Hernández. The former congresswoman Sandra Villadriego did not appear on the new list, ”explains Javier Marrugo, who was head of the list of this collation for Bolívar, in a first list.

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Guardianship raised by former congresswoman Sandra Villadriego

The Historical Pact is thus left out of the race for Chamber after the legal representatives of the Ada and the Green Party did not sign the new listwhose deadline for registration ce closed on February 13.

Former congresswoman Sandra Villadiego is supported by the ADA party, but she was heavily criticized the inclusion of Villadiego who was the sentimental partner of a convicted parapolitician.

This coalition is running for the Presidency of the Republic with Gustavo Petro.

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“The ADA party has not come out but it did not sign the new list”, explains Javier Marrugo,

“Sandra Villadiego came out on the new list and the leader Diorina Hernández joined. The parties could have signed the coalition regardless of whether their candidates were present or not, but they did not,” adds Marrugo,

However, in a paradox of Colombian politics, a guardianship, raised by former congresswoman Sandra Villadriego, could once again put the Historical Pact in competition for the Chamber. The last word has a judge.

Everything ready for the first election day of the year

The next Sunday On March 13, the Senate and House of Representatives elections will be held in Colombiaand the inter-party consultations prior to the presidential voting in June.

The electoral census: 38,819,901 Colombians are eligible to vote for Congress
Of those, 18,788,046 are men and 20,031,855 are women.

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Throughout the country there are 112,009 polling stations located in 12,512 polling stations throughout the country for the ordinary election and for the elections of the 16 districts of peace, 4,525 tables were set up, distributed in 1,966 polling stations that will be located in zones rural areas of 167 municipalities of 19 departments.

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Elections 2022: Those who seek to repeat seats in the Chamber for Antioquia - Medellín - Colombia

for the next congressional elections for the next quarter, Antioch It has 146 candidates for the House of Representatives distributed in 10 lists, these without counting the candidates of the Special Transitory Circumscriptions of Peace (Citrep).

Although there is renewal in the names on most lists, there are others who are already known and who are looking for repeat seat in the suffrages of next March 13.

The Democratic Center is the party with the most names seeking to repeat as House Representatives, something logical considering that it currently has more than a third of the seats in the department.

Of the seven Representatives of ‘uribismo’ in Congress for the House, five seek to repeat, these are: Óscar Darío Perez, Margarita María Restrepo, Jhon Jairo Berrio, John Jairo Bermúdez and Juan Fernando Espinal.

In the case of the first two, both are seeking their position in the House of Representatives for Antioquia for the third time in a row.

“I am looking to repeat the Chamber because when the father or mother gets sick, one stays to take care of them. And that happens with Medellin, the city is sick and needs all those people committed to the city to recover order, democracy and dignity,” Restrepo said.

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The size of the Congress of the Republic must be reduced and the salary of high-ranking state officials must be frozen

For her, the experience of almost 8 years in this position taught her that this position is not one that gives power or recognition, but good management to improve people’s lives.

He added that he likes the point of balance between experience and renewal that the party list has, because “very different sectors participate, which is vital to form an interdisciplinary team.”

A similar opinion was expressed by Juan Espinal, who valued the participation of women, young people and people with experience in the list of the Democratic Center and assured that said list represents the interests of Antioquia.

“Once again I put my name to the consideration of all Antioquians to return to Congress because I believe that we have to insist on some issues that are essential to recover the confidence of Colombians in the institutions: we must reduce the size of the Congress of the Republic and freeze the salary of high-ranking state officials, hopefully it can be legally reduced said salary,” said Espinal.

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He added that, for him, it is essential to reform justice in the country, something that he considered an urgent need and that is why he seeks to return to Congress.

In the lists of the Democratic Center there is also a name of a former congressman who also wants to return to Congress, but with other colors.

This is Luis Horacio Gallón, who was already a Representative to the Chamber in the 2014-2018 period, but for the Conservative Party.

There is an expectation that the Democratic Center in Antioquia can have a vote like the one it had in past periods

For Professor Juan Carlos Arenas, director of the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Antioquia, both in the department and in the country, a reconfiguration process of names and integration of party lists.
However, he clarified, this is seen more in center-left parties.

“On the issue of the Democratic Center, there are many well-known names, although others chose to run for the Senate. There is not so much renewal thereWhat may be surprising is the expectation that this party in Antioquia can have a vote like the one it had in past periods. There is a window open to surprise”, expressed Arenas.

He pointed out that although many of those on the list do not have the level of recognition that other politicians who are not part of the House list have and who depend more on the strength of the party.

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Chamber candidate Gustavo Orozco protested homicides in Cali - Cali - Colombia

At the edge of the Plazoleta Jairo Varela, in front of the Municipal Administrative Center (CAM), the scene seemed terrifying. On the platform there were several black bagslong and stuffed as if they were corpses that caught the attention of several people who were circulating in the area in the morning hours.

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In this way, the candidate for the Chamber of Representatives for Valle del Cauca, Gustavo Orozco, made a protest for the number of people who have died violently in the city, so that the Mayor’s Office of Cali “improves the security mechanisms and guarantees the lives of the people of Cali.”

“The safety of Caleños has to be their priority, we are tired of being robbed and killed. The figures are overwhelming, they show the reality of the city as the Colombian capital of homicide and reflect the great fear felt by the people of Cali, since the situation is getting worse every day. We need the mayor to put on his pants, take responsibility for him as the first public order authority and do the most basic thing: protect us, ”said Orozco.

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For the candidate, the blockades during the national strike that led to an increase in criminal acts increased until he had a panorama in which the city and Valle del Cauca have suffered attacks that have generated terror.

In Gustavo Orozco’s protest, the black bags simulated murdered people.

Gustavo Orozco demanded strong measures against crime.

“What is happening is an expansion of the guerrilla, dissidents, drug traffickers and small criminal structures that seek to dispute the territory and the drug markets. We are seeing a worsening of that reality, but worse still, the disinterest of local leaders in handling the situation, in addition to the negligence of the National Government to ignore the region with the highest concentration of criminal phenomena in the entire country,” says Orozco.

Start of the year with fewer homicides

For his part, the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, highlighted that in this last month the homicide rate was reduced by 21 percent compared to the same date last year.

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The president details that this in the first month of this year there have been 72 violent deaths, less than last year where 86 occurred.

According to data provided by the Security Observatory, in a partial way, this 2022 the homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants for the current year corresponds to 37.2, that is, it is the lowest rate in the last 38 years; 54 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants by 2021 and 47.5 by e

#AchievementsInSecurity | The balance of January 2022 resulted in the beginning of the year with the lowest number of homicides in the last 30 years, as well as: 👇

✅356 captured for different crimes.

✅246 weapons seized.

We remain committed to the safety of our city. pic.twitter.com/7Pg8GiGraf

– Security and Justice (@SeguridadCali) February 2, 2022

“We have been in a strategy for five months with the Metropolitan Police, the CTI, the Prosecutor’s Office, the Inpec and some intelligence agencies. We are doing work with the Gaula, placing some devices with all the cross-referenced information from the oldest Security Observatory in southwestern Colombia; With this information, communes, neighborhoods, hours of greatest occurrence of homicides, what causes them, what days of the week, the hours, and an intervention has been carried out, in addition to daily monitoring, “said the Secretary of Security and Justice , Carlos Javier Soler Parra.

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Elections Antioquia 2022: This is the panorama for the Chamber - Medellín - Colombia

Antioch It is considered the second key region in terms of voting in the country. In that order of ideas, the department already has the political chess set ready for the elections for the House of Representatives next March 13.

Figures from the Registry indicate that the department has 10 lists in which there are 146 candidateswithout counting the 15 lists of the Special Transitory Circumscriptions of Peace (Citrep).

Of the lists, it is known that at least seven are open, which means that the vote goes directly to the candidate, and two are closed, which would be those of the Common and Historical Pact parties, in which case, the vote is for the party and they are chosen in row order.

Of the 17 seats, 6 are currently from the Democratic Center, so it is expected that they will be consolidated as the stronghold of Uribism in the country. The head of this party is Hernán Darío Cadavid, followed by Óscar Dario Perez (seeking to repeat), Diana Lorena Murcia, Juan Esteban Mejía and Juan Eduardo Mejía.

Professor Juan Carlos Arenas, director of the Institute of Political Studies of the University of Antioquia, said that for these elections, not only the strength of each party must be taken into account, but also what other movements are doing.

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The social movements that have been taking place in the last two years were taken advantage of by socially based sectors to form the collegiate bodies

“The social movements that have been taking place in the last two years have been used by sectors with a social base to form the collegiate bodies of some political parties, not only in Antioquia, but in the rest of the country, where there is a reconfiguration of the names of the candidates,” Arenas said.

Said situation, he clarified, could be counterproductive for the Democratic Center if this youthful disagreement reaches the polls, since the Center Left could be strengthened.

Precisely, in the so-called Historical Pact, the names of characters that became known during the protests stand out, such as Susana Gómez (known as Susana Boreal) and Jerson Hader Gonzalez (as Kanabico Objector).

“On the Democratic Center issue, there are many household names, although many chose to run for the Senate. In the case of the Chamber, there are Juan Espinal, Óscar Pérez, Luis Gallón and Margarita Restrepo, who are already known, but it will be necessary to see if Uribismo can achieve this time the majority in voting that it had in the last elections”, expressed the teacher.

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For him, there is a window open to surprise because of the citizen dissatisfaction that could put at risk the seats that the Democratic Center currently has in the House of Representatives.

As for the heads of the list, these are the names that lead the political parties in Antioquia:

For the Comunes party, there is Pedro Baracutao, followed by Gloria Emilse Padierna, Luis Arturo Garces and Sara Botero.

For the Partido de la U, Guillermo León Palacio is head of the list. Then there are: Mary Luz Muñoz, Adriana Astrid Pérez, Edison Alexander Palacio, María Marlen Dávila, John Fredy Villada, Simón Echavarría, Juan David Gómez, Luis Eduardo Ochoa, Juan Carlos Salazar, Salomón Ortega, Diana Cecilia Osorio, Birleyda Ballesteros, Edwin Mauricio Cortes, Yesid Miguel Castro, Yaned Mazo and Santiago Gallego.

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In the Radical Change Coalition – Free Just Colombia – Look, Mauricio Parodi is the head of the list; He is followed by Adriana Maria Salas, Johnatan Gonzalez, Andrés Felipe Torres, Jorge León Ruíz, Sebastián Zuluaga, Ángela María Ospina, Rafael Antonio Cordero, Marlon David Méndez, James Enrique Gallego, José James Ospina, Alejandro Montoya, María Mónica Salgado, Yuly Adriana Castro. , Ana Catalina Echeverri, Jenny Colombia Portela and Misael Alberto Cadavid.

In the Green Alliance are, in order, Ana Carolina Arboleda, Margarita María Vanegas, Juan Camilo Londoño, Diana Georgina Correa, Hernán Darío Marulanda, Walter Manuel Salas, Kelly Vanessa Torres, Aldrin de Jesús Chavarría, Vicente de Jesús Arcila, Elkin Rodolfo Ospina , Luis Guillermo Hoyos, Alicia Ramos, Paula Andrea Uribe, Gloria Patricia Palacio, Martín Alonso Gómez and Luis Alejandro Saldarriaga.

In the Historical Pact, the head of the list is David Alejandro Toro. She is followed by Susana Gómez, Luz María Múnera, Fernando León Henao, Cindy Yulieth Henao, Manuel María García, Esneda del Socorro López, Isaac Buitrago, Yuli Andrea Gil, Henrry Alexander Rua, Luisa Ester Palacios, Antonio José Montoya, Lida Eugenia Mejía, Yeferson Estiven Echeverry, Johnatan Andrés Peña, Estefanía Sánchez and Jerson Hader González

In traditional parties, such as the Liberal, the Conservative and the Democratic Center, the heads of the list are, respectively, Julián Peinado, John Edison Molina and Hernán Darío Cadavid.

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A result cannot be calculated without taking into account the competitors. But we do see an accommodation in all political groups

In Uribism, there are also Óscar Darío Pérez, Diana Lorena Murcia, Juan Esteban Mejía, Juan Eduardo Mejía, Jorge Elias Piedrahita, Rosa María Acevedo, Yulieth Andrea Sánchez, María Cristina Isaza, Jhon Jairo Berrío, Laura María Naranjo, Julián Fernando Lopera, Luis Horacio Gallón, Luis Fernando Castaño, John Jairo Bermudez, Juan Fernando Espinal and Margarita María Restrepo.

In the Liberals, Julián Peinado is at the top, followed by Santiago Murillo, Paola Andrea Jaramillo, Nelida Marín, Luis Carlos Ochoa, Catalina Valvuena, Flor Margarita Agudelo, Claudia Patricia Franco, Julio Alberto Márquez, Rodrigo De Jesús Ardila, Alex Arturo Rojas , Diana Lucía González, Franklin Emilio Eguis, Jorge Alejandro Ortiz, Aury Estella Gonzalez and María Eugenia Lopera.

“The Liberal party has strong candidates because they have significant political work in some regions, but a result cannot be calculated without taking into account the competitors. But we do see accommodation in all the political groups,” added Professor Arenas.

On the Conservative side, the list is headed by John Edison Molina, followed by Hilda Luz Jara, Carlos Ubeimar Cano, Daniel Restrepo, Juan Camilo Callejas, Liliana Martina Trochez, Fray Daniel Sepulveda, Andrés Felipe Jiménez, Maríoa Alejandra Ospina, Luis Miguel López, Enrique Humberto Henao and Sonia María Ríos.

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They close the list of traditional parties Víctor Correa for the Hope Center Coalition.

He is followed by Cecilia Estella Murillo, Rogers Ortiz, María Liced Mesa, Germán Antonio Vargas, Natalia Rendón, Wilder Manuel Peñafiel, Candy María Fonseca, Daniel Carvalho, Miguel Fernando Gutierrez, José Milagros López, Lina María Palacio, Heiny Eidy Cuesta, Juan Diego Ríos, Óscar Guillermo Hoyos, Wilington Villegas and Carlos Andrés Muñoz.

The UdeA expert pointed out that the Democratic Center, a strong party in Antioquia, surprised with names for the Chamber that are not as well known in the territory.

“There are candidates who are, in some way, because of the strength of the party rather than by name. If that strength weakens, it is possible that it will not be possible to compensate for the work that each one has done in the regions,” Arenas added.

Medellin Writing