Historical Pact would have chosen Francia Márquez as Petro's vice-presidential formula, according to Gustavo Bolivar

The deadline is due for the presidential candidate of the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petro, to announce and register his vice-presidential formula. The issue has caused so many rumors that Senator Gustavo Bolivar, from that coalition, broke the silence on the issue and assured that all parties that make up that alliance would already have a candidate for that appointment.

According to the list leader to the Senate for the Historical Pact, it would be Francia Márquez, who won the second highest vote in the inter-party consultations last Sunday, March 13 in the petrianism, and who Bolivar and other politicians want to see accompanying Petro in the race for the presidency.

“The Parties that make up the Historical Pact, at his own request, decide today on Gustavo Petro's presidential formula. I will only say this: My name is Gustavo Bolivar and I want Francia Márquez to be my Vice-President!” , Bolívar said through his Twitter account.

For now there is no official pronouncement on this matter. However, as Infobae Colombia learned from sources from the Petro campaign team, the announcement would not be made this Tuesday, 22, but could even be postponed until Friday, March 25, the deadline set by the National Registry of Civil Status for candidates to register their 'vices'.

Although Petro has tried not to address the issue, several militants of the Historical Pact have said publicly that they want to see Francia Márquez in the race for the presidency but in the company of the also senator of Human Colombia.

Even the social leader herself has assured that she will be elected to the Vice Presidency of Gustavo Petro; this, after several controversies about it, given that in the past it had been said that this position would be kept by someone from another party, such as the Liberal, to guarantee a greater vote for the former mayor of Bogotá.

“Come on Colombia, for many years they have imposed the policy of death on us; it is time to make a dignified policy, that takes care of life, that cares for the territory as a space of life, that takes care of every Colombian and Colombian,” said Márquez, while giving several other details of his bets for Colombia.

The announcement was made in a video accompanied by Gustavo Bolivar and Alexander López Maya, senator of the Democratic Pole, a party that endorsed his candidacy in the consultation on March 13. The video was uploaded to the latter's account.

The congressmen who accompanied her highlighted the experience and political capital of who won more than 783,000 votes in the internal consultations. In fact, Gustavo Bolivar even called Francia Márquez “our vice-president”, so it would be reaffirmed that she will be the one to accompany Petro in his third attempt to become president of Colombia.

“We are going in the first round with France, with Petro and with this whole bench of 50 senators and representatives, to conquer this country,” Bolívar said.

The previous event occurred after a meeting between Gustavo Petro, France, Bolivar, López Maya and other characters of petrianism, in an apartment in the north of Bogotá, where they talked about the unions they will make for the first presidential round, which will be held on May 29 of this year.

It should be recalled that France itself had said days ago that it did not expect that the also leader of Human Colombia and today presidential candidate for the Historical Pact would appoint her as its vice-president. “I'm not expecting to be the vice-president, what I hope is that people will stop suffering (...), but if I do, it would be an act of justice to the communities I represent,” she told the press recently. In addition, the question was raised about the possibility of such an offer by stating that: “If they tell me I will be, and if not, I will also support the Historical Pact.”

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