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Holguín turns against re-election Uribe

by Adriaan Alsema December 2, 2008

Former Interior and Justice Minister and prominent member of the
Conservative Party Carlos Holguín asks Conservatives in Congress not
to vote in favor of Colombian President Álvaro Uribe’s re-election.

According to the ex-Minister, who is expected to run for the 2010 Presidency himself, Uribe himself had asked him to tell the Conservatives to skip the re-election.

“I am the most Uribista of Uribistas and support a re-election more than anyone, but I don’t think there will be neither a referendum nor a re-election. The conditions aren’t there,” Holguín told reporters Monday.

Conservatives shouldn’t be betting on a referendum that is uncertain to be approved to be left without other options if the referendum is sunk, Holguín said.

Supporters of Uribe in Congress want a constitutional change to give the current President the possibility to run for office again. Millions of Colombians signed a referendumdemanding this change, but the referendum’s come under scrutiny because of its shady finances.

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