Welcome to Hard Talk on the BBC World Service with me, Stephen Sacker. My guest today holds the record as the

youngest person in over a century to be elected president of Colombia. After four years in the job,

Ivan Duké's term is almost over. Colombia's constitution doesn't allow him to run in the upcoming

elections, and he's hardly going out on a high.

His poll ratings are poor. Last year, the country was racked by violent demonstrations against his economic policies,

and he has failed to deliver progress on Colombia's structural problems, mass poverty, inequality and alarming levels of violence.

He came to power as a committed opponent of the 2016 peace agreement signed by his predecessor

with the leftist guerrilla movement, the FARC. While President Duque didn't rip that deal up,

implementation has been slowed to a crawl.

Now, if the polls are to be believed, his successor may be the leftist candidate Gustavo Petro,

himself a former leftist guerrilla, would that represent the Colombian public's rejection

of the country's traditional ruling elite. Well,

President Ivan Duque joins me now. Welcome to Hard Talk.

Stephen, thank you so much. Now, just in a few weeks' time, you will be leaving office.

And the opinion polls in Colombia suggest that a clear majority of your people disapprove of the job

you have done. Why is that? Four years ago, in the first round of the elections, I got 39% of the

vote. When you look at the national polls that have been out, those are the same numbers that I have

today. So I'll tell you, if I had the chance of running for re-election, for sure, I will fight for

and I'll be re-elected because I think we have important results to show.

But you made big promises back in 2018.

I remember them quite clearly.

You said, and this is a quote from you, we have an obligation to transform our country, restore security

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