At the head of the small environmentalist party Vert Oxygène, the 59-year-old Franco-Colombian ex-hostage will participate in a primary organized to decide between the candidates of a centrist coalition, the Coalition of Hope.
Twenty years after her kidnapping, the Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, hostage for six years of the FARC guerrillas, announced Tuesday her intention to take part in the presidential election scheduled for spring 2022 in Colombia.
In the event of victory, Ingrid Betancourt will therefore represent the center in the presidential election of May 29, a current which wants to be an alternative to face-to-face, structuring in Colombia, between the right in power and the left, represented by the former -mayor of Bogota and former guerrilla Gustavo Petro, today the favorite in the polls in Colombia.
“For decades we had only bad options: extreme right, extreme left. The time has come to have a center option, ”said the candidate, who has set herself the fight against insecurity and pollution as her objectives. “I believe in a world with a woman’s vision,” she added.
“Today I am here to finish what I started with many of you in 2002. With the conviction that Colombia is now ready to change course,” she said, referring to his six years of detention in the jungle.