Oviedo said that when he was director of the Dane, a survey revealed that 41 % of Colombians are center, but voted for the extremes, out of fear. “Because they were promised a change and for now, of change, zero chicks. Of the political reflections that I have been giving is that when I was director of the Dane, in the Political Culture Survey, we asked people about their political ideology and in the last ten years: 41 % of people say it is Centro, ”explained the today’s councilor of Bogotá, a position he reached after being second in the intention to vote to the mayor of Bogotá, in 2023, becoming a political phenomenon with a lot of future.
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“But now people are afraid to say that it is center. Yes. Because everyone says that the center is cold, that the center is undecided, but what we have realized is that the center or political ideology is not one of the people who represent millions of people who millions of people who vote. The political ideology is one of the people who vote. So, naturally, what we have to understand is that here you have to do a pedagogy task and think that the moderate visions of politics, associated with the center, have to stop being fearful, ”added Oviedo.
“We agreed on something else, which we wanted to change, because people voted in 2022 because I wanted to change, but we could not agree on how we wanted it to happen,” said the former director of the Dane when insisting that he will arrive To the electoral contest with a center -right vision, and “will help” another candidate if the person to help is equanimous. “So, what we need is to be pedagogical in the sense of telling people, ‘come, here there is an incoherence. When Dane is calmly asks your political ideology or the pollsted agencies say that they are the center time of the polls or the left or the left, you have to stop being afraid. ‘ And that is why we can be a pragmatic, realistic, center, coherent option, ”insisted the former director of the DANE, thinking of The electoral situation of 2026.
“I am not going to put my political ideology on a political project that has to mostly represent the country. And today the country wants to do things. He wants discipline, he wants head, he wants heart and that is what we are proposing. A discipline to think about problems with a lot of head and implement the very important solutions that this country requires, ”added Oviedo, insisting that the center can be the way after the frustration of Colombians that the announced change never arrived. “It didn’t happen. We are going to talk clearly, since we are talking about pure politics, the one who wins governs for everything. The one who gains governs for the development of the country, for the progress of all the people who inhabit that territory. But what we have seen is that there has been nothing. On the contrary, we have crab because all the attitudes of this government are justified, ‘Ah, it is that in the past it was also so’. So why didn’t they complain? ”He said. “So, what is very clear, and we reflect it in our response to the Council of Ministers of February 4, is that there is no change,” he said.
“Therefore, what we need is to understand that people on foot want change with discipline, with a head, with heart, with doing things, with joining, and not in that diatribe of the policy of life or death ”, Added the former director of the Dane. “We cannot continue tolerating that they put us politically between life and death. What this country needs is to live. And not tasty, as they say, it is living well, living making the dreams of all the people who inhabit this country come true, ”he said.
“We need that in politics there will be an attitude to seek agreements, to look Meetings with various political sectors without meaning flirting. “Nor are we going to give that we are very attractive at this time. We have not received offers, the worst thing that can happen is to unite without having clear rules of the game and without being clear about principles and a purpose. We already saw it in 2022, with an example of union, many people joined, they were not clear about the purpose and that went wrong. ”
