President Alberto Fernández arrived in Bogotá to attend the inauguration of the elected president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and the vice president, Francia Márquez Mina. The head of state traveled aboard a charter flight that left at 6:39 p.m. on Friday from the Aeroparque Metropolitano.
Fernández landed in Bogotá together with the Foreign Minister, Santiago Cafiero, and the Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity, Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta, to participate next Sunday in the inauguration of Petro, who He will be at the head of the Colombian Government until 2026, replacing Iván Duque.
The Argentine president will have its first bilateral meeting with Petro and will also share a meeting with the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro. King Felipe VI of Spain and presidents Gabriel Boric (Chile), Pedro Castillo (Peru), Guillermo Lasso (Ecuador), Luis Abinader (Dominican Republic) and Laurentino Cortizo (Panama) are expected to attend the inauguration ceremony, among other leaders.
On the same night of the electoral triumph in the second round of the binomial Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez Mina, on June 19, Fernández had sent his congratulations through social networks. “I am filled with joy by the victory obtained by Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez Mina with which the electoral process in Colombia culminates,” the president wrote on his Twitter account.
Days ago, Alberto Fernández and the vice president, Cristina Kirchner, they met separately, in the Casa Rosada and in the Senate of the Nation, with Francia Márquez Minathe first Afro-Colombian and the second woman to be vice president of her country.
The presence of the president in Colombia also represents support from the region for Petro, given that Alberto Fernández is currently at the head of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC).