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The 5 key proposals of Rodolfo Hernández to be president of Colombia

2022-06-19T11:53:14.531Z


Rodolfo Hernández focuses his program on the fight against corruption and proposes a reform of the Judiciary, lowering VAT, more coverage in education and a rural housing program.


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(CNN Spanish) --

Rodolfo Hernández was the protagonist of the first round in Colombia.

He rose in the polls in the final weeks, unseated the establishment and right-wing candidate — Federico "Fico" Gutiérrez — and reached the second round with the possibility of threatening Gustavo Petro's advantage.

His flag is anti-corruption.

He is independent, controversial, anti-political and populist.

These are the main proposals of Rodolfo Hernández, 77, if he wins the Presidency.

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anti-corruption

"I define myself as Rodolfo Hernández, an engineer who wants to get the thieves out of the government. That's all."

That's what his campaign to put an end to the corrupt is summed up, in general.

That is the backbone of his program.

"Corruption is the biggest tax that all Colombians have to pay," Hernández says on his website.

"Corruption is a disease that can only be cured with surgery and without anesthesia."

How will you defeat corruption?

"Nope

lie, not betray the voters and achieve a small modification to the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code to take away impunity," he told CNN en Español.

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"How is it possible that these politicians who steal everything and send them to the country club? Do they send them home? They send them to pay military attention, while a poor man steals a chicken. They put him in the worst yard for ten years."

The anti-corruption axis includes a reform of the Judiciary, meritocracy as a basis for the assignment of public positions and the creation of fiscal control.  

The bet is also citizen participation.

In his government program, Hernández says that he will encourage citizen oversight: "They will be paid a reward for the money that is recovered from the corrupt politicians they denounce. They will stop being mistreated and their recommendations will have to be addressed promptly."

In addition, he says that he will create "a virtual institute that will return the stolen money to Colombians. "The idea is to reward citizen complaints with up to 20% of what is recovered."

During the campaign, he has accused his critics of being "scoundrels", "robbers", "thieves", and even drug addicts every chance he gets.

Contradicting his anti-corruption flag, Hernández has an alleged corruption scandal on his back, in which he has declared himself innocent.

This is the case of Vitalogic in which the Prosecutor's Office formally accused him in May 2021 for entering into a consulting contract with alleged irregularities to "implement new technologies for waste management in the El Carrasco landfill."

Hernández insists that "one peso" has never been stolen.

In April 2022, in an evidentiary hearing of the trial, Hernández did not accept charges such as ideological falsehood, contract without compliance with legal requirements and improper interest in entering into contracts, according to the Prosecutor's Office.

The case is still ongoing.

"That's Rodolfo: contradictory of his slogan of not lying and we have already found many lies about him. The issue of corruption has greatly devalued him with the Vitalogic phenomenon, etc.", Acelas points out.

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The 'Resocializing City'

In line with the fight against corruption, Rodolfo Hernández wants to restructure the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec) "and improve the country's prison infrastructure."

His goal: to relocate prisons to places where there are "agricultural and industrial activities" and "zero tolerance for crime."

That is what he calls the 'Resocializing City': a project to modify prisons with "optimization of resources and resocialization of convicts."

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More coverage in education

Hernández has a central educational proposal: 100% university coverage, through a reform of the public university admissions system.

"To achieve this objective, investment will be made in the construction of more higher education centers, starting from the most remote and poorest regions of the country," it says in its program.

Hernández says that transfers to universities will be increased and there will be a rule that allows territorial entities "the use of royalties to finance the payment of professors and tuition subsidies for students."

One axis is to progressively write off student debts with the Colombian Institute of Educational Credit and Technical Studies Abroad (Icetex), a state entity that promotes education through loans.

Hernández propose that it be applied with three filters: "Active students, in order to avoid desertion; those who are part of strata 1 and 2; and those who obtain the best averages."

One path in this project is for Hernández his anti-political vision: "To take away the management of the universities from the politicians to hand it over to the most renowned academics, intellectuals and thinkers."

Taxes: 10% VAT

Rodolfo Hernández proposes to organize the country tax-wise with one main bet: to lower VAT.

The idea is "to make VAT payment so practical that taxpayers do not have mechanisms to evade the commitment to the Nation. We propose to apply a general VAT rate of 10%, almost half the current percentage, which keeps the family basket free of the tax and reclassify the other excluded goods and services".

The objective is to guarantee collection and make administrative processes more efficient, if all taxpayers contribute 10% VAT, he says, there would be balance in fiscal matters.

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Decent housing to avoid displacement from the countryside

Hernández, who during his professional life has been a builder focused on low-income housing in the department of Santander, says that his goal is decent housing, closing "the housing deficit in rural and urban areas."

The candidate proposes a national rural housing program with the creation of "integral rural villages": prefabricated houses of at least 60 square meters with full housing services, solar panels and septic tanks.

This program, he says, manages to avoid "avoiding displacement to the cities and, on the other hand, the return to the countryside is encouraged."

As for urban housing, they would be houses on lots of 72 to 126 square meters in central areas with investment savings incentives.

With information from Fernando Ramos and Melissa Velásquez

Colombian Elections

Source: cnnespanol

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