Colombian candidate-elect for Historic Pact, Ivan Cepeda, offers statements after winning coalition’s primaries. Cepeda won Historical Pact Primaries with over 62% of votes. teleSUR
00:00those who are the victims of this country I also want to thank all my
00:14fellow party members of the history part packed all of those who set aside
00:25their presidential aspirations to help for this triumph those who have gone
00:34throughout the country as pre candidates to the Senate and the
00:42representatives chamber and also to my work team my strategist all of my team
00:50please I have great gratitude for you our adversaries political adversaries they
01:03said they put up a number of hurdles to prevent us to come to this point we must
01:14say it is insulting that up to this point we are we don't have a judicial
01:27personality as a social movement so I am making a call respectfully but with
01:37urgency you should already assign us juridical status because this is not a
01:45small group of citizens this is the most influential force of the country so we
01:52need legal back in for by the electoral council we are a segment of the
02:02population that is decisive the time would come to make an analysis of everything
02:13that has happened not with a retaliating spirit but we can not ever again cast
02:25out peasants from elections electoral processes and not in the same goes for
02:35expats residing abroad or for people who have to cover a lot of large distance to
02:45get to Apollo stations we are going to analyze review all the obstacles through
02:50this vote voting day we know that in some areas there were no voting stations and areas that would have added to our
03:12triumph we have made a clean campaign when we when we made we are going to make our
03:24budget public and I'm sure people will be stunned of how little compared to
03:29others we have made a clean campaign with no insults there's not a one
03:35candidate that may have been slandered denigrated in any way we have respected
03:43all of our adversaries and we will continue to do so on this electoral path ahead of us we
03:54will continue adhere to austerity austerity respect transparency ethics
04:01because our program also includes an ethical revolution and that's not a phrase
04:11it's it's the beginning of a demonstration that we can do politics in
04:15Colombia with transparency and with zero corruption
04:22I've been friend the people that stands with you as I said at the beginning
04:37we want to acknowledge Carolina court is a victory on this election because she got
04:51huge support as well and we value her and we invite her to get into this path to victory
05:03we have said from the beginning we will make progress because we have all the ingredients all the
05:17conditions necessary to build a second progressive administration in Colombia we have all the
05:28candidates with great support from the citizens the citizens and who have gone through the primaries but
05:43also because we have a program platform that had that I presented to the country
05:51yesterday entitled the three revolutions for up Colombia as life power and the world for
06:03all of us to discuss because I will not go into any debates to insult other
06:10candidates or to threaten or denigrate any anyone I challenge all of them to
06:22discuss on ideas and proposals for the country and not about threats or insults
06:29slander against slander against individuals and least of all against the current president
06:35Gustavo Petro who respect who deserves all respect in Colombia for his work as president
06:45to the other political forces which are moved by democratic spirit and want some social changes in Colombia
07:05and they are willing to work for an authentic peace to advance social reforms and the agrarian reform
07:14we invite you to sit with us to discuss the way to build a great front wide front that may win the elections on the first round
07:28we live it we feel it Ivan for president that broad front that we would like to have
07:46would not be an electoral alliance would be a political force to build on on on a program platform that may ask that may
08:13fulfill the needs of the people on the 2026 elections tonight I want to reiterate our
08:23acknowledgement for president Gustavo Petro who has been our guide and has conducted us to this point
08:32and we also demand tonight for him respect not just as a politician but before other
08:43governments other instances that want to intervene in our political economic and social realities president
08:55deserves every respect as well as his political party
09:06so let's let's focus on constructing a second great period of historic transformations that will turn Colombia
09:18into a live power worldwide an agrarian power a truly democratic and free society thank you very much
09:29we're listening to his reflections on this trajectory and also the challenges ahead we'll have more on this and many other topics stay tuned with tell us our english
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