Colombian Green Party presidential candidate Antanas Mockus said Friday that the proposed second round election alliance with left-wing party Polo Democratico failed because the two parties disagreed over the direction Colombia’s foreign policy should take.
Mockus told media following a meeting with Polo Democratico leader Gustavo Petro that the Green Party was not prepared to compromise its foreign policy in order to form an alliance with the left-wing party.
The former Bogota mayor said that the Green Party has decided not to form an alliance with any political party, but are prepared to incorporate other parties ideas into their ideology. Mockus said that the Greens will continue to seek an alliance Colombia’s citizens.
Mockus said that the Greens will continue to seek an alliance Colombia’s citizens.
The Green candidate recognized that his party and Petro’s shared the same desire to combat mafia infiltration of the state, to care for victims of violence, to respect the Justice and Peace process and to return land to displaced Colombians
Mockus said that the decision not to form an alliance with Polo Democratico allowed both parties to maintain the policies they felt strongly about, and ensured that neither party compromised their defining ideology or identity.
Mockus said that although there was to be no “agreement of cooperation” as Petro had proposed, he invited Polo supporters to vote for him in Colombia’s June 20 second round presidential election
Polo Democratico president Clara Lopez confirmed that her party will not support any candidate in the second round vote.