Duque will serve the four-year term for which he was elected

After speculation that President Iván Duque would agree to unify the electoral calendar, the president insisted that his administration ends in August 2022.

The week that has just passed left a distress among some congressmen to whom information reached that, apparently, high officials were lobbying the project of the National Federation of Municipalities and Departments that seeks to unify the presidential, parliamentary and regional elections , a situation that would force the permanence of the president for a few more years.

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Faced with this communication, Senator Luis Fernando Velasco and also the former chief negotiator and former minister, Humberto de la Calle, asked the president to demonstrate and completely discard any pretense of continuing in power. In an interview with Reuters, the head of state reiterated that he has no intention of staying for two more years in the Casa de Nariño.

“I was elected for a period of four years, from August 7, 2018 to August 7, 2022,” he said. Likewise, he added that “there are no Palace officials calling anyone, less to talk about these issues. Our agenda is very clear: massive vaccination, safe economic reactivation, a great social agenda, the recovery of public finances and carry out the works of the Commitment for Colombia ”.

Plus: Proposal for the unification of presidential, parliamentary and regional elections is re-airing.

With this declaration, the president implicitly makes a promise that he will hand over the command of the country to whoever is elected in June 2022. Since now, the political forces of the right, center and left have been moving their chips and even the Conservative Party and The Green Alliance began the campaigns that, due to the pandemic, are being developed virtually.

As well: Unify elections, an idea that would not have support in the legislature.