🇨🇴 Colombia 2026 Presidential Pre-Candidates & Proposals

(Updated: September 12, 2025)

📅 Key Dates

Pacto Histórico internal consultation: October 2025
Inter-party consultations (with Congress elections): March 8, 2026
First round: May 31, 2026
Runoff: June 21, 2026
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🌹 Pacto Histórico (Officialist / Left)

Iván Cepeda – Senator

Continuity of Petro’s agenda (land reform, human rights).
“Paz total” with a more territorial and preventive approach.
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Susana Muhamad – ex-MinAmbiente

Environmental/feminist government.
Limits on extractivism; focus on Amazon & deforestation policies.
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María José Pizarro – Senator

“El cambio continúa”: women’s rights, victims’ policy, social equity.
Built grassroots #PizarroSí volunteer structure.
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Carolina Corcho – ex-MinSalud

Pushes structural health-system reform (primary care, transparency).
Wants to rethink “paz total”.
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Camilo Romero – ex-gobernador de Nariño

Calls for a “Frente Amplio” to unify progressives.
Advocates depolarization gestures (e.g. “marcha del silencio”).
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Gustavo Bolívar – ex-senator

Continuity of Petro’s platform, emphasis on anti-corruption.
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Daniel Quintero – ex-mayor de Medellín

Policy 1: 4 million washing machines for poor households (“Colombia te cuida”) → claims +0.5pp GDP growth.
Policy 2: State-paid prepaid health insurance for ~400,000 public-school teachers.
Both proposals under feasibility/legal scrutiny.
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🦅 Centro Democrático (Right / Opposition)

The party will define its candidate via an AtlasIntel survey (Dec–Jan), then join a right-wing consultation in March 2026.
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María Fernanda Cabal – Senator

Restore legal gun carry.
End peace talks, stronger military tech.
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Paloma Valencia – Senator

Proposed raising employer health contributions by 1pp.
Advocates a health-system overhaul.
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Paola Holguín – Senator

Security-first platform.
Proposals: simplify environmental licensing, clarify prior consultation, improve concessions.
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Andrés Guerra Hoyos – Senator

Focus on security & territories (detailed program pending).
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Miguel Uribe Londoño – businessman (entered after assassination of his son Miguel Uribe Turbay, Aug 2025)

Pledges to continue son’s security-focused agenda.
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⚖️ Center / Signatures & Independents

Sergio Fajardo & Juan Manuel Galán – Alliance ¡Ahora Colombia!

Joint centrist coalition.
Fajardo: education, anti-corruption, institutional rebuilding.
Galán: economic reactivation, fiscal order, stabilize health system.
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David Luna – ex-senator (signatures)

Plan “100.000 reclutas”: expand army with housing & scholarships.
Push for unified opposition candidate.
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Claudia López – ex-mayor Bogotá (Imparables)

Runs on anti-corruption & security.
Signature-based candidacy.
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Mauricio Lizcano – ex-MinTIC (signatures)

Frames a “revolución del sentido común”.
Pushes digital transformation governance.
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Juan Daniel Oviedo – ex-DANE (signatures, Con Toda por Colombia)

Data-driven platform: social wellbeing, security, technical rigor.
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Mauricio Cárdenas – ex-MinHacienda (signatures)

Runs on economic stewardship and stability.
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Vicky Dávila – journalist (signatures)

Anti-corruption & hard security platform.
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🚫 Not Running

Federico “Fico” Gutiérrez (ex-mayor Medellín) has ruled himself out.
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