At the head of the small environmentalist party Vert Oxygène, the 59-year-old ex-hostage will participate in a primary organized to decide between the candidates of a centrist coalition.
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Twenty years after her kidnapping, the Franco-Colombian Ingrid Betancourt, hostage for six years of the FARC guerrillas, announced on Tuesday January 18 her intention to take part in the presidential election scheduled for spring 2022 in Colombia. “I will work tirelessly from now on, from sunrise to sunset, to be your president”, declared Ingrid Betancourt, during a press conference.
At the head of the small environmentalist party Vert Oxygène, the 59-year-old ex-hostage will participate in a primary organized to decide between the candidates of a centrist coalition, the Coalition of Hope.
In case of victory, she will therefore represent the center in the presidential election of May 29, a current which wants to be an alternative to the face-to-face, structuring in Colombia, between the right in power and the left, represented by the ex- mayor of Bogota and former guerrilla fighter Gustavo Petro, now the favorite in the polls.
Ingrid Betancourt was kidnapped by the Marxist guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in 2002, while campaigning for the presidency. She had been rescued during a military operation and has since lived abroad, regularly staying in Colombia where she often takes part in public debate.