Federico Gutierrez achieved the official candidacy for the center-right party with more than 1.7 million votes. Former mayor of Medellin won Barguil (Char) Penalosa, Barguil (Char) and Tab of Los Cristianos.

Federico Gutierrez is an ex-mayor of Medellin. He was born there in 1974. As https://www.facebook.com/FicoGutierrez for the local area, Gutierrez was a Municipal Youth Councilor and as a Municipal Planning Councilor in Medellin since 2003. Gutierrez is a civil engineer by profession at the University of Medellin. Fico Gutierrez holds a degree in management of senior level at the Pontifical Bolivarian University.

Federico Gutierrez has been a consultant at HGI Consultores and Resident Engineer at Company Vifasa S.A. This construction and glass business however was not his primary goal. In his personal life, the aforementioned Federico Gutierrez defends his family and asserts that it is the most important thing in his life. He is married and has two children.

As as a councilman, he backed Sergio Fajardo's mayoralty and then that of Alonso Salazar. He was elected to the Mayor's Office of Medellin, changing his goal in the year 2015. He also became an alleged victim of corruption just like the other mayors who were part of the Hidroituango Project. Daniel Coronell also published an investigation of him that implicated him in Panama papers. He said he had kept the money in tax havens and that he had committed corruption.

He has even confronted former mayors who he had backed and stated recently that "I have been in solidarity avec those who are included in this report because I don't think someone makes such a determination to make a tunnel fall and they are in solidarity. And what https://www.elheraldo.co/politica/oscar-ivan-zuluaga-desde-el-uribi... do is an attack based on political strategy."

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In the fall of 2021, the so-called Experience coalition was created and later changed into the Team for Colombia. Federico Gutierrez was the Center-right alliance and won the candidacy. Paola Holguin, a Democratic Center congressman, ran again for the seat in the 2022 election.

He also repeatedly said that his system of government was based on public management for the citizens, and that politics is a vocation. With Fico Gutierrez in the second place behind Gustavo Petro, 'Fico', as he says the name he prefers is the representative of the right in Antioquia.