Meet The Pro-Trump Colombian Presidential Candidate Promising 10 New Mega-Prisons

Pro-Trump Colombian presidential candidate Abelardo de la Espriella has promised build 10 new mega-prisons as left-wing President Gustavo Petro prepares to leave office.

De la Espriella is a lawyer and businessman who is seeking to become Colombia’s next president as the county holds its presidential election Sunday. Despite no previous political experience, he is rising in the polls to second behind Iván Cepeda, a leftist Colombian activist, according to Reuters.

The upstart lawyer has promised to crack down on drug trafficking, crime, and illegal armed groups. In his attempt to make Columbia safer he has pledged to create 10 new mega-prisons, the outlet reported.

“In my government, there will be no peace processes. Criminals who do not submit will be taken down, as permitted by the law,” de la Espriella said, according to the outlet.

“I will dare to do what needs to be done within the framework of the constitution and the law to save and rebuild Columbia…I am the tiger for that,” the candidate, who has been nicknamed “the tiger,” said in a February interview with Reuters.

De la Espriella has described President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as “great allies of democracy,” according to ColumbiaOne.

Cepeda has promised to further economic and social reforms that Petro has pushed for, the outlet reported