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Petro to Assume Political Leadership of Colombia's Leading Leftist Party

President Gustavo Petro said Sunday that he would become the leader of Colombia’s largest political party on the left, the Historic Pact. In a tweet, Petro responded to Senator Ivan Cepeda, who proposed him as party president at a political rally in the city of Tunja on Saturday. Petro said he would “accept the proposal of my party after surrendering power to the far-right President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella. The president said he would fir…

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The arrival of Abelardo de la Espriella in Bolivar’s solium does not represent only the predictable pendular movement of the new right as a response to the natural wear and tear of democratic systems. On the contrary, it embodies a much more sinuous and anachronistic historical phenomenon under a calculated patina of discursive renewal. Dissecting the architecture of the incoming government, it is evident that its recent appointments do not repr…

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BOGOTÁ (AP) — The outgoing President Gustavo Petro has promised to give his last public speech on Monday in the framework of the commemoration of the independence of Colombia and the installation of the renewed Congress, in which the President-elect...

·Calhoun, United States
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The Colombian President, at the end of his term, expects a "united bench." It will be succeeded by Abelardo de la Espriella, elected right-wing candidate. He will start his term in early August.

·Lisboa, Portugal
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The new head of state chose a barracks for his inauguration, breaking with the traditional civil ceremony in Bogota. The outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, refused to shake his hand, and the left-wing candidate defeated declared that he was entering into "civil disobedience".

·Paris, France
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President Gustavo Petro confirmed that, once his term ends on August 7 and after taking a rest period, he will assume the political headship of the Historical Pact, with which he came to power in 2022. The announcement did so through his account on social network X, where ... The post Gustavo Petro will assume the political headship of the Historical Pact after leaving the Presidency appeared first on ::Tolima Online:.

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