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Weekly Report - 13 February 2014 (WR-14-06)
COLOMBIA: Could Ramírez become Uribista candidate?
Francisco Santos has made a dramatic and controversial return to political life in Colombia after a self-imposed absence. Santos, who was overlooked by Cambio Democrático (CD), the party of former president Álvaro Uribe (2002-2010), in a convention last October despite opinion polls suggesting he was the one politician capable of defeating President Juan Manuel Santos, his cousin, in May’s presidential elections, threw his weight behind Marta Lucía Ramírez, the recently selected presidential candidate of the Partido Conservador (PC), saying she was capable of “winning the heart of Uribismo”.
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