Colombian centre-right senator running for the presidency in 2026. She is the granddaughter of a former Colombian president and a close ally of Álvaro Uribe: "Uribe is my father," she has said. Would be Colombia's first female president; she warns that Colombia is "a very sexist country". She picked Juan Daniel Oviedo, an openly gay former head of the statistics agency, as her running-mate.
She opposes the 2016 FARC peace deal, wants 30,000 new soldiers to maintain order more broadly (not only against gangs and rebels) and seeks a big anti-gang accord with the United States, with new prisons to match. She advocates a smaller state but argues that fixing fiscal woes requires growth fuelled by tax cuts, paired with help for the informal sector ("the real economy"), where more than half of Colombians work. "It's very difficult to make common sense attractive when confronted with populism," she has said. "Colombian populism is cinematic."
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