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The former minister, who is flirted with by a sector of public opinion to make the leap in the race for the House of Nariño, gave an interview to the writer Carolina Sanín and spoke of its coherence and novelty.
During an interview with the teacher and writer Carolina Sanin in Canal Capital, this Tuesday former Minister Alejandro Gaviria -Who sounds like one of the pre-candidates for the Presidency Looking to 2022 – he referred to the growing image that public opinion is beginning to have about him. Although he did not define whether or not he will launch in search of the Palace of Nariño, he stressed (citing the philosopher Karl Popper) that people see in him “A person capable of not politicizing morality, but moralizing politics.”
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Although the conversation was focused on other topics, Sanín did not stop touching the subject of candidacy and even predicted that Gaviria will end up accepting, so do not want. In response, the minister replied that this situation, end up doing what he does not want, he has already done “several times”.
“I think it is true that you do not want to (run for the Presidency). I think that vso you end up accepting it, because you like to do what you don’t want to do ”, Sanín said to which Gaviria replied: “I’ve done it several times in my life.”
Asked promptly about what makes a sector of society demand their application, the former Minister of Health during the government of Juan Manuel Santos spoke of coherence and novelty, warning that “the politics does not need moral heroes to make a difference ”.
“Maybe it has to do with the issue of consistency. Some novelty, as well. People like they are tired of the same figure, that it seems an inertia, and the same figures are repeated and repeated. There are perhaps certain misunderstandings of what politics is and its paradoxical nature. Politics does not need moral heroes to make a difference, ”explained Gaviria.
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In that sense, he gave as an example the case of the former president of the United States Lyndon johnson, to whom the newspaper The country did not come down from “eccentric president obsessed with his penis”, assuring that, although it was ethically criticized, made social transformations.
“I remember reading the biography of Lyndon Johnson, who He was a despicable guy in some way and ethically criticized in all dimensions, but he was able to carry out social transformations, including those related to the health system, ”said the former minister.
Alejando Gaviria also highlighted that one of the aspects by which their flirtations increase in politics is “that a bit strange temptation of people who go from the world of ideas to politics, that has almost always failed. We have a very close one in Latin America, which was Mario Vargas Llosa, who did very badly, “he said, insisting that people see in him” a person who embodies certain values. “
