BOGOTA: Six men will contest Sunday's first-round presidential election in Colombia, but most voters are zooming in on one of three frontrunners they hope holds the answers to the country's many pressing problems.
Rising in the polls, but never higher than third place, is anti-corruption candidate Rodolfo Hernandez, a 77-year-old businessman.Jhon Richard Pejendino, 33, sells art on the streets of Bogota but would have liked to be a lawyer."There are public universities but you have to have very good marks to get in. If you don't have the marks you must pay, and if you do not have money, you do not get educated.
She said she also believed Colombians deserved better access to health care, pensions and unemployment benefits. There were also 108,000 reported muggings -- often committed with guns-- in 2021, an increase of 24,000 in one year. "This is one of the most polarized elections yet," he told AFP while on a break outside his place of work on the eve of elections.
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