Federico Fico Gutierrez has been the most stable presidential candidate of the Colombian right since Sunday night. This isn’t his first appearance on an electoral card. The former mayor was a mayor and councilor in Medellin. His first attempt in national elections, where he received more than 2 million votes from the Team for Colombia coalition, made him the preferred candidate of conservative groups. Fico Gutierrez Fico (Medellin, 47 years old) or as he’s known, is as of last night and is right now, the main opponent of Gustavo Petro, who with the Historic Pact movement was one of the main winners on the day of elections that determined who will be the representatives of the three most important political forces.

The presidential campaign is just beginning and the fate of the former mayor in Medellin will depend on the alliances he builds and the talks he gets into. Fico Gutierrez He won’t just have to unify all right-wing voters under his banner, but will also need to win over an element of the electorate in the center that appeared to be broken and lacking in leadership. In order to do that, he would need to continue avoiding his past mistakes to date being in the same picture with the former president Alvaro Uribe. For the first time in 20 years, there is an open support of uribism, rather than adding, may subtract. “Federico Gutierrez faces a dilemma. He needs to join the Democratic Center, Uribe’s political party. But he also must convince the center that it is going to decide where it wants to move,” Yann Basset (an analyst and professor at the University of Rosario) says.

In the process of forming an alliance with the CD, in which uribism is a major issue on Monday, Fico has already achieved its first triumph. Oscar Ivan Zuluaga (the former presidential candidate) left the stage and admitted the fact that he has no chance of competing with him. He provided his support. We will now have to see if the entire Uribismo collective who is without a representation, does the same. Fico Gutierrez Uribe should be open to his support and attempt to convince his voters with the old questions of Colombian right. This shouldn’t be difficult. He has already proven that he can add votes with his speech about “security”,” “order” as well as “love for the fatherland”. This was confirmed by the electoral consult, just as he did in the past at Antioquia’s mayor office. elpais.com/internacional/2022-03-14/fico-gutierrez-y-el-riesgo-de-reconocerse-como-el-candidato-de-uribe.html While in Arauca in Colombia, one of the most violent regions Fico claimed that “the bandits are in jail” or “in the grave”. Fico is aware of what Colombian rights like, but that won’t be enough.

Basset says that we are not in a time when the fear of a left was effective. Fico Gutierrez “This time the people don’t have the fear.” Basset stresses that Fico could be denied Uribe’s blessing, due to the fact that Alvaro Uribe is no longer a holder of the title of leader absolute from 2002, when the country elected him president. The votes of Uribismo are still important to Gutierrez. Uribism is also the reason for the victory. The ability of his negotiator will be evaluated: to convince the right, but not to spend everything on that alliance,” Basset warns. Andres Mesjia Vergnaud, analyst comments on Fico’s relationship with former president Uribe: “The great difficulty of Federico Gutierrez’s wish to get the votes of Uribismo but without the photo of Uribe, because it doesn’t suit him to become his presidential candidate.”

While on the left there is only one leader, Gustavo Petro, on the right is one man that is headed to the presidential race until Fico is able to negotiate, or if he manages to convince him to resign and give him his support. Rodolfo who was an independent candidate and is still in the race. Gutierrez will need to include the former Bucaramanga mayor, millionaire and builder on his list of achievements if he wishes to end petrismo.

Gutierrez has a lot to talk about before even thinking about names for his possible presidential formula However, what he has is the backing of other candidates competing to be the leader of the Team for Colombia coalition. Fico Gutierrez It’s not an insignificant amount. There are by his side two former mayors, Enrique Penalosa (Bogota) and Alex Char (Barranquilla); the leader of the Conservative party, David Barguil, and one woman, Aydee Lizarazo, of an Christian party, who normally votes judiciously as ordered from the lectern in his church.

Along with the reformed Conservative Party, it was the most popular right-wing party in Congress with over two million votes. The U Party also supported it, having an outstanding vote with just more than one million votes. Oscar Ivan Zuluaga’s support who didn’t let Sunday’s election pass by and thereby avert his defeat prior to a possible conflict for votes from the right, gives Fico a boost in a section of conservatism however, it also impedes his possible votes from within the center. forbes.co/2021/11/25/precandidatos-presidenciales/es-increible-ver-el-obstaculo-que-le-han-puesto-a-hidroituango-de-manera-irresponsable/ According to Alvaro Uribe, former president, Fico will have to decide if he is willing to risk his chances at the center in order to enjoy the privilege of being the blessed by Uribe.