Their electoral platform – which also promotes a sense of generational change – is centered on their rejection of illegality and corruption, two issues that galvanize broad popular support. Indeed, this yearning for change is why Mockus, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, may reach the presidency in a country that experienced only a scant influx of foreigners in the twentieth century.
莫卡斯法哈多组合骄傲地将两人描绘成政界的局外人，他们的当选会带来相应的收益和风险。 他们的竞选纲领宣扬世代更替，重点打击非法行为和腐败现象，上述两个主张为他们赢得了广泛的群众支持。事实上，正是这种求变心理导致莫卡斯这个立陶宛移民的儿子在哥伦比亚这样一个二十世纪移民寥寥无几的国家能够争夺总统宝座。