Progressivism Triumphs in Colombia and a People Beginning To Leave 200 Years of Loneliness Behind It
The presidential ballot in Colombia, with almost 100 percent of the polling stations counted according to the National Electoral Council.
July 7, 2022 by Pressenza
By Andrés Figueroa Cornejo
The presidential ballot in Colombia, with almost 100 percent of the polling stations counted according to the National Electoral Council, ended on Sunday 19 June with the victory of the progressive candidate Gustavo Petro for the Historical Pact, who received 50.45 percent of the votes, for a total of 11,278,938 people, while the representative of the extreme right and the continuist Uribist party, Rodolfo Hernández, received 47.29 percent, equivalent to 10,571,757 of the votes.
The democratic forces that supported the winner, Gustavo Petro, range from sectors of liberalism critical of the establishment, to social and political organisations of an anti-capitalist nature, which synthesises a progressive political construction that, for the first time in more than 200 years, managed to break at the ballot box the electoral hegemony of the most reactionary, authoritarian, conservative and oligarchic dominant groups in the country, openly under the tutelage of Washington’s interests.
The electoral result, among other factors, can also be explained by the unprecedented popular revolt that shook the tectonic plates of profound Colombia in 2021, which was capable of modifying the relations of force in many dimensions thanks to the massive participation of the youth, women, the most precarious workers and peasants, the indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, and the most historically excluded and discriminated social groups in the country.
It is the same people who led the popular outburst of the previous year, using their legitimate and legal right to protest, who paid for the mobilisations against poverty and crime with almost a hundred people murdered and thousands tortured, wounded, imprisoned and prosecuted by the military, state police and paramilitary forces, The armed extensions of the paramilitaries, all of them linked to the traditional political power, the drug trafficking industry, the landed classes of agribusiness, the exploitation and plundering of natural resources by the big transnational economic groups, and the state police.
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