Vicky Dávila would launch herself as a presidential candidate after resigning from Semana

The journalist Vicky Davilawho currently works as the general director of Revista Semana, would leave her position to run as a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic for 2026as revealed by the station ‘Blu Radio’.

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Likewise, he reported that Dávila’s candidacy, in principle, It would be done by signatures and that is why in the coming months it will begin its campaign in advance..

“We confirm for the first time that Vicky Dávila will definitely be a candidate for the Presidency of the Republic in 2026. Dávila will leave the direction of Semana Magazine in the coming months to assume her aspiration for the Presidency. Her candidacy would in principle be launched by signatures”he wrote on his social networks Ricardo Ospina, director of information services at Blu Radio.

According to Ospina, Vicky Dávila notified the Semana directors this Wednesday of the decision to leave. However, for now, the journalist has not publicly confirmed or denied the information.

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Dávila has gained ground as an opponent of Gustavo Petro’s government and precisely that would be her political banner with which she will seek to reach the Casa de Nariño in 2026. In fact, her candidacy had already been analyzed by study centers.

For example, in the recent survey of InvamerDávila occupied fourth position in voting intention, with 7.7%. In the first boxes were Claudia López (10.9%), Sergio Fajardo (10.5%) and Juan Manuel Galán (97%).

Meanwhile, in a survey of Guarumo In the month of September, Dávila occupied the first position in voting intention, with 12.2%, followed by Sergio Fajardo (10.1%); Claudia López (9.4%); and María Fernanda Cabal (6.4%).

Oviedo gets into the race

Juan Daniel Oviedo, current councilor of Bogotá and former candidate for mayor of the capital of the Republic in the last regional elections, will also run for the presidency in 2026, as he himself confirmed for EL TIEMPO.

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In dialogue with the newspaper, he also former director of the Dane revealed that He hopes to close his cycle in the Bogotá Council in June 2025. From that date, he says, he will begin collecting signatures on tours throughout the country.

“Right now we have a plan. That on June 1 we can have closed a cycle in the Bogotá council is our purpose. That June 1 we would like to start a six-month season in Colombia collecting signatures because we want our movement and our presidential aspiration to be supported by signatures and echoing what are the concrete solutions that we want to give to the different Colombias”, he told EL TIEMPO exclusively.

According to Oviedo, at the end of November 2025 it will evaluate “where we are in terms of electoral preference to determine the final stretch of our participation, which we do with total conviction that we know that we can contribute a unique way of doing politics in the 2026 elections“.

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*With information from EL TIEMPO – POLITICS