Who is the TikTok Plack who can become president?

But the real estate tycoon, converted into a politician, has a chance to become the country's next president if he wins the battle against contestant Gustavo Petro in Sunday's runoff vote, CNN writes, Telegrafi records.

America has seen a number of populist foreigners who have been present in national politics recently, and Hernandez wants to do the same in Colombia.

He does not even worry about comparisons with far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro or former US President Donald Trump, telling him CNN in early June: “What I will do is overcome corruption. If that's why I'm called the Colombian Trump, it's great”

Hernandez, who is 77 years old, is known as “el genniero” (ingenerator) for his degree in civil engineering from Columbia's national public university or “el viejito del TikTok” For his active presence in social media.

His presidential campaign avoided traditional debates broadcast on television and political rallies, focusing instead on attracting voters through their phones.

The result is that, in addition to presenting his gaffelike style of electorate, he once called Adolf Hitler a great German thinker and later apologized, saying that he meant Albert Einstein no one really knows what a presidency led by Hernandez would look like.

Its platform contains few specific reforms to be achieved when he may be in office, with Hernandez himself acknowledging that he is not ready for any issue on the government agenda.

To describe his presidency, he compared himself to an executive director of an airline, explaining that he may not know how an airplane engine works, but has the skills to manage the company for profit.

His Personal History

Born to a family of low-sized “class in 1945, Hernandez made a capital through real estate in the 1990s after millions of Colombians migrated from the village to urban areas.

Later, he entered politics, becoming mayor of Bunaramanga, Colombia's seventh - largest city, in 2016.

Hernandez has also personally experienced the tragedy of Colombia's ten-year armed conflict, which left at least 220,000 people dead.

In 2004, his daughter Juliana was kidnapped by the so-called National Liberation Army (ELN), one of several left-wing guerrilla groups that have organized uprisings against the Colombian state over the past 60 years.

Hernandez recently discovered that her body was never found.

A series of turns

Hernandez's clearest piece has been his promise of “getting rid of corruption”.

And that is an urgent issue: 80% of Colombians say corruption is widespread in government, according to a recent Gallup survey.

But how Hernandez intends to do so remains a mystery, writes CNN, records Telegrafi.

He has pledged to lower government costs, for example, “by blocking the presidential plane” or “by turning the presidential palace into a” museum.

However, he has not proposed any legal solution to deal with corruption more widely, although he told CNN that he would seek a state of emergency to accelerate any necessary law.

Hernandez has had his problems with corruption charges, too, and some are continuing.

He is subject to 38 corruption investigations, including one expected to go to court next month.

Hernandez has denied that charge, saying, CNN that “with current laws, any candidate can be indicted by anyone”.

But if he wins presidential elections this Sunday, the issue will likely be halted, as the Colombian law requires Congress' approval to place a incumbent president before the trial.

In addition, much of Hernandez's political trajectory may be marked as a series of turns.

In 2016 he found that he voted against the historic peace agreement between the Colombian state and the Revolutionary Forces of Colombia (FARC).

But in his promise of the presidential campaign, he said he would respect the treaty and even proposed a copy-clear solution “to negotiate with ELN local group allegedly killed his daughter 18 years ago.

Speaking of the environment, Hernandez has changed his mind during his campaign, initially declaring itself in favour of exploration projects and then appearing in a TikTok video, insulting such a thing.

And when it comes to foreign policy, even this part, his campaign has been unclear.

One of Hernandez's closest advisers, Angel Beccassino, told CNN that Hernandez planned to connect his administration with left-wing leaders such as Ignacio Lula da Silva of Brazil or Argentina President Alberto Fernandez.

But Hernandez himself has also said his focus will be on improving Colombia's relations with the United States.

By constantly changing his positions, the self-declared King of TikTok” may appear undecided, but overcoming ideological lines is also a part of his “mark”.

For example, it is in favour of the merger of Colombia's relations with Venezuela and the end of the war on drugs, two issues that are important to Colombia's left.

Economically, however, it stands for free market.

And on other key issues, including security, fiscal reform or infrastructure, he has said little or nothing.

As a smart salesman, Hernandez has reached “to sell himself” enough Colombians to reach the final round of voting.