US EditionClash with Election Authorities Threatens Petro’s Historic Pact Coalition
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The route to choose the presidential candidate of the Colombian left remains again in limbo. The former mayor of Medellín Daniel Quintero has announced by surprise this Wednesday morning that he withdraws from the crash consultation of the Historical Pact, the coalition that supports the government of Gustavo Petro, in front of the mound of resolutions of the National Electoral Council that have hindered the unity proposed by the progressive for…
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Latin America ReportsClash with election authorities threatens Petro’s Historic Pact coalition
Historic Pact ballot. Image credit: @PactoCol via X. Bogotá, Colombia – Daniel Quintero, a candidate for the ruling Pacto Histórico (Historic Pact) coalition in Colombia’s 2026 presidential elections, withdrew this week from presidential primaries alleging a “trap” by Colombia’s National Electoral Council (CNE). Quintero’s move came after the CNE rejected a request by President Gustavo Petro’s Historic Pact coalition to form a new party and hol…
In the early morning of this Wednesday he announced that he will not be part of the consultation because of the supposed legal uncertainty of the consultation.
Eleven days after his vote, the consultation planned to elect the presidential candidate of the official Historical Pact remains in place, but he faces a climate of uncertainty after the departure of one of his three pre-candidates and questions about its legal validity. Iván Cepeda and Carolina Corcho maintain their candidacy, while President Petro insists that the process will not stop.
Former Mayor of Medellín and now presidential candidate Daniel Quintero announced in the last few hours that he will withdraw from the internal consultation of the Historic Pact, which was due to take place in a few days, exactly on October 26, arguing that this decision is based on the "last-minute change of the rules of the game by the National Electoral Council and the General Registry of the Nation," noting that these two regulatory entities…
Daniel Quintero announces his withdrawal from the consultation of the Historical Pact a few days after the vote of October 26. The former mayor of Medellín and presidential candidate, Daniel Quintero, announced his withdrawal from the consultation of the Historical Pact scheduled for October 26, in rejection of a decision of the National Electoral Council (CNE) that, according to him, distorts the process. The electoral body decided that the con…
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