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...Laureano Gómez rode a wheelchair to the polls in Colombia last week-and rode away from the election a revitalized political strongman. Less than five years ago, Rightist Gómez was ousted by military coup from power as a hated dictator; only six months ago he returned from banishment in Spain. But when he put his leadership of the Conservative Party into the balance against the party's other factions in the voting, the strong-willed ex-dictator, now 69 and weakened by a series of four heart attacks, easily won. "He is," Colombians explained with...
Fifty-Fifty for Peace. Colombia's Conservatives and Liberals went to the elections to pick a Congress, the first after nine years of dictatorship and state of siege. They voted under a very special set of ground rules devised by Laureano Gómez and Liberal Leader Alberto Lleras Camargo. Because Colombian political strife runs readily to bloodshed, the parties agreed to split the seats in Congress exactly half and half...
...party's 50% share of 80 Senate and 148 Chamber of Deputies seats. The total vote-1,800,000 for all Liberals, v. 1,400,000 for all Conservatives-clearly showed Lleras' party to be Colombia's biggest. In the intra-Conservative election, Laureano Gómez' chief opponent was moderate-minded Guillermo Len Valencia, who played a bold role last May in dethroning Military Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (the man who toppled Gómez in 1953). Of the Conservatives' 40 Senate seats, the Gómez group won (depending on the final count...
Next President? Defeat of his faction was a blow to León Valencia. Last year, seeking to amplify the parties' fifty-fifty nonaggression principle to include the presidency, Lleras Camargo and an anti-Gómez faction of the Conservatives agreed upon León Valencia as a single candidate for the presidential election set for May 4. But Gómez, on his return from Spain, forced Lleras to reopen the question and agree that unless León Valencia won the approval of a majority of the new Congress, he would no longer be the joint...
...either Lleras Camargo or Gómez had a replacement candidate in mind, the name remained his own secret...