US EditionUribe’s Party Picks Moderate Candidate for Colombia Election
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Paloma Valencia wants confirmation that she is Álvaro Uribe's star pupil who can lead his political group back to the presidency. The senator, chosen through the Democratic Center party's internal poll…
On Monday, the main right-wing opposition party in Colombia nominated Senator Paloma Valencia, who supports Donald Trump and his pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, as a candidate in the 2026 presidential election. Paloma Valencia will represent the Democratic Centre party, led by the influential ex-President Álvaro Uribe, for this presidential race in the context of the US military deployment in the Caribbean and especially near Ve…
Uribe’s Party Picks Moderate Candidate for Colombia Election
Colombia’s powerful Centro Democrático party selected Senator Paloma Valencia as its candidate for next year’s presidential elections, signaling a shift toward a more moderate right as it prepares to face President Gustavo Petro’s preferred successor.
Paloma Valencia has been a senator since 2014 and is a critic of the 2016 peace agreement with the former FARC rebels.
“We are going to win. Victory is the fruit of the surrender and here we have to win, with an blameless woman,” said the ex-president Álvaro Uribe. On Monday, he assured a right-wing victory in the presidential elections of 2026 with Senator Paloma Valencia, elected as his party’s candidate, the Democratic Center. “We are going to win. Victory is the fruit of the surrender and here we have who to win, with a blameless woman. We are all going to f…
BOGOTÁ.— The main opposition party in Colombia, Centro Democrático, elected in the last hours as candidate to succeed the leftist Gustavo Petro in 2026, a senator akin to Donald Trump who supports his pressure against the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro. Congresswoman Paloma Valencia will be the letter of the party Centro Democrático, led by the influential former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), in the presidential race that takes place …
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