The polls disagree for the second round in Colombia

Two weeks before the second round of presidential elections in Colombia, center-left Gustavo Petro and the independent populist Rodolfo Hernándezchosen for the ballot, they redouble their efforts to seduce the electorate, with private and intimate acts and without mass baths.

And the latest polls present dissimilar results for the second round, on June 19.

The latest National Consulting Center poll for Semana magazine indicates that Petro would join us 44.9% of the votes and Hernández 41%. 9.4% do not know or do not answer, 3% would vote blank and 1.7% for neither.

Field work was conducted between May 31 and June 2 in 50 municipalities across all regions of Colombia, with 2,172 face-to-face interviews. The study’s margin of error was 2.1%.

Meanwhile, the survey on the intentions of the companies Guarumo and EcoAnalítica Measurement and Economic Concepts for the newspaper El Tiempo gave 46.4% for Hernández and 43.3 for Petro. The survey took place from 1 to 4 June and consulted 1,958 citizens. The margin of error is 2.5%.

Petro’s business

The former mayor of Bogotá Petro, whose campaign announced a change of strategy after meeting his rival, who does not hold public events and has his greatest fame on social networks, he was in a soccer match in the populous sector of Engativá, in the country’s capital.

There he accompanied the campaign volunteers who organized this sporting activity, he played a few minutes and took a penalty kick.

On the way to interacting with different communities, Petro spent Friday night at a fisherman’s house in Honda (Tolima, center), where riverside residents depend on fishing from the Magdalena River, the country’s largest, for their livelihoods.

Saturday morning accompanied the fisherman to fish and listened to the reflections of the locals on how difficult it is for a family to survive this activity because the river no longer has as many fish as it used to.

At the court

That same day, the candidate of the Historical Pact visited another family, this time in the municipality of Santa Elena (Antioquia), recognized as the cradle of the so-called flower silletas, a tradition in that area of ​​the country.

Meanwhile, Rodolfo Hernández, who attended a football match in Medellín (northwest), part of this Sunday dedicated to recording songs for social networks and in the afternoon he planned, through that medium, to explain his proposals in the field of education.

Hernández, former mayor of Bucaramanga (in the north-east of the country), stated that he will not participate in the televised debates and that he will continue to advertise his proposals and programs through media interviews and live broadcasts on his social networks.

Source: AFP and EFE

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