The turning point of the election campaign was the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio. Since that day, the country has changed drastically, and so has proselytism. Public spaces and the idea of ​​a crowd cheering on candidates ceased to exist. Now, “meetings” with Carondelet applicants, if they can be called that, go through several security filters and audience hyper-segmentation. The goal between the two options is to capture the highest percentage of the youth vote, which goes to those between 16 and 29 years old.

We are moving from free entry to squares, colosseums and fields to QR codes for entering areas with limited capacity. Politics transformed in seconds and shut down the possibility of closeness between voters and candidates Carondelet. Despite the production and circulation of messages on the networks, humanity in politics is irreplaceable. The proposals cannot be reduced to micrographs that say little or nothing about the proposals to get out of the abyss we are in: insecurity, performance, corruption and impunity.

This campaign is atypical and tasteless. First, since the president has not completed his term, he leaves with enormous unpopularity and sends political organizations into flight, showing that they are neither staffed for elections nor interested in internal training processes. To show the button: seven of the eight candidates were imported by the parties. So we are also talking about an anomalous democracy. It’s a democracy without parties, but more about checkbooks than government plans.

Second, it is a campaign that does not catch and does not suggest because it is full of generalities, and did not arise from correismo-anticorreismo. Everything is reduced to short sentences as if it were a simulation of an epitaph for comfortable readers. The big issues are beyond the election, with campaign offers exceeding compliance capacity due to the short time either candidate will have to govern. The teams that will accompany the winner are also absent from the public. We are once again falling into the personalization of politics.

The carousel of polls deserves a special space for discussion, although they coincide in trend, but due to the percentage of undecideds, they remain a mystery until election day. Controversially, pollsters have become a necessary evil. It is possible that the results they give us are wrong because of the political disillusionment that has grown to such an extent that people are convinced that no one has a savior recipe.

A few days before the country will inaugurate a new cycle, the population demands a minimum certainty that they will reach December with some peace and redoubled hopes for the next year. At the end of the day, the majority segment of the impoverished population has just that: hope. More answers, less demagoguery. More work team and less tiktok. Let everything be done to think of an atypical and tasteless campaign. (OR)