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Weekly Report - 15 May 2014 (WR-14-19)
COLOMBIA: Petro back with a bang
A few short months ago it looked like Gustavo Petro’s political career was over. Now not only is his career back on track but he could also play a decisive role in presidential elections on 25 May. Colombia’s council of state granted precautionary measures this week on behalf of Petro, the mayor of Bogotá, temporarily suspending the decision by the prosecutor general’s office to dismiss him and bar him from holding public office for 15 years. The council of state ruling is highly significant because it should satisfy President Juan Manuel Santos and pave the way for Petro to throw his weight behind Santos’s re-election bid as ‘the option for peace’. This could be crucial. Recent opinion polls suggest that Santos’s right-wing rival, Óscar Iván Zuluaga, is coming up fast on the rails. Santos is running a poor third in Bogotá and Petro’s endorsement could give him a lift.
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