COLOMBIA: BOGOTA: MAYOR ANTANAS MOCKUS TO QUIT JOB
(25 Mar 1997) Spanish/Nat
Bogota's colourful Mayor is to quit his job next month to run for President of Colombia in 1998.
Antanas Mockus, a philosopher and mathematician, won office with a landslide victory in 1994.
He campaigned as a political outsider and corruption-weary voters in the capital embraced him.
Unconventional, certainly.
But Antanas Mockus knows how to climb up the political ladder.
He won office as Mayor of Bogota --the second most important political post in Colombia -- by a landslide in 1994 on a shoestring budget.
His next job might be as President of Colombia.
Mockus has come up with some creative procedures during his tenure, including dressing up as "Super Civic" to encourage people to keep the city tidy.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"We are trying to educate people to be "Super Civics"
Q: What for?
A: So that the city is beautiful as we all would want it."
SUPER CAPTION: Antanas Mockus, Bogota's Mayor
Under Colombian law, anybody seeking to run for the presidency must resign from public office a year before elections, which are scheduled for May 1998.
And Mockus is already saying good bye.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"You've seen that I'm saying good bye to my colleagues. I don't know the exact date I will retire because it all has to do with the meticulous small print. We'll see."
SUPER CAPTION: Antanas Mockus, Bogota's Mayor
Mockus said he didn't rule out running for the vice-presidency on a joint ticket with Chief Prosecutor Alfonso Valdivieso, but as the date of his resignation approached, he seemed to have changed his mind.
SOUNDBITE: (Spanish)
"It would a bit absurd to resign as mayor to start doing what vice-presidents have been doing so far. That would be very weird. So if I leave this front it would be to take a more complex one."
SUPER CAPTION: Antanas Mockus, Bogota's Mayor
In a recent opinion poll Mockus emerged third with 12 percent voter support, after Valdivieso and interior minister Horacio Serpa.
His popularity is partly due to his headline-grabbing antics.
As a rector of the National University, he bared his backside at a group of rowdy students to get their attention.
As a mayor, he got married in a circus tent surrounded by tigers.
The country will now have to wait and see what electioneering tactics he will devise in the run up to the presidential elections.
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Mockus y Uribe, los mejores dirigentes colombianos y con mayores logros 👏👏
@eusselds5243
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Uribe paraco hijueputa
@Enrique_Saavedra_Valdiri
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@@juandavidfernandezpinto6469 Gracias Juan David, admiro a los ciudadanos socegados y tolerantes con los diferentes puntos de vista, Pilar de la democracia
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Uribe???
@Enrique_Saavedra_Valdiri
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@@walterosorio8457 Y Mockus
@Enrique_Saavedra_Valdiri
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