Armed with a pencil and with the motto "unity is strength", the Green candidate for President of Colombia, Antanas Mockus, began a challenging tour of the traditional coffee-growing region, where the ruling Juan Manuel Santos at his heels in the polls.
After the last poll a dead heat granted to the two candidates, after weeks in which Mockus was a leader in voting intentions, the philosopher and mathematician broke with machinery in Manipur, one of the cities that make up the coffee and stronghold of liberal and conservative, traditional parties.
There he expected a place full of fans, mostly young students, who kept shouting slogans such as "To us, no one paid us!".
According to the polls, a majority vote to receive Mockus in the May 30 elections will be "young, urban, and also from middle and upper classes, the educated class in Colombia, to which the committed candidate the development of the country through taxes.
"They will pay more than those with more," Mockus preached to several thousand people dressed in green shirts and armed with sunflowers, his other campaign symbol next to the pen, which refers to the key issue on its agenda : education.
The candidate said: "All social policy is expressed and made visible in the budget, I hope to grow the contribution of the upper strata, these strata are going to vote for me I will ask you to help me improve the plight of the poor. "
"We the support of the middle-and high bless to work together against poverty, "he added.
In this regard, he announced that if he wins the election, his party colleague Lucho Garzón, who like him was Bogota Mayor is responsible for social policies in their government.
He said that will remain subsidy programs for poor families and grant aid to students "to encourage high school completion, in addition to promising a health system reform. All of this with money from the wealthiest taxpayers.
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confirmed that the Green candidate for vice president, Sergio Fajardo, share this position with the Education portfolio.
With slogans such as "public funds are sacred," the audience screamed and jumped calling for political change, to which Mockus said that "without social justice there will be no peace."
"social justice must be done and we must make peace, and will lead the path of social and military pressure, and another through public investment well made," noted the 58-year intellectual.
As if teaching a class at the National University of which he was rector, Mockus used a series of metaphors to explain their program, and remembered what happened in apartheid South Africa to explain that torture and pain have no place in any society, then the case for moving to Colombia .
also asked the public "is more serious to rob a citizen or the State?", To which the crowd responded in unison: "The State!".
This candidate was willing and as another key line of your program is what he calls the "democratic rule", which is nothing to make society see the need to comply rights and obligations.
One of the meeting, the law student Jose Fernando Trujillo, Mockus said they would vote for because "it is time to revolutionize and change the way of doing politics."
"We are convinced that Professor Mockus going to show us the way in which Colombians are going to choose representatives to the public power of conviction, not by handling patronage, favors or gifts."
also made clear that the Green candidate, "as well as educate and culturizar people, will be tough on crime, the guerrillas and paramilitaries" as he did, he recalled, when he was mayor of Bogotá.
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