Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States

US Senator Bernie Sanders announced on Tuesday that he would run again for the US presidency in the 2020 elections, the network reported. CNN.

Sanders, a 77-year-old self-incriminating democrat and who lost the nomination as the party's candidate for the 2016 White House race, made this announcement during an interview with the station Vermont Public Radioaccording to CNN.

"I wanted people in the state of Vermont to know this first"said Sanders, a senator from the same jurisdiction.

The current candidate is described as a democratic socialist and is about to win the 2016 round against Hillary Clinton, who would later be defeated by Republican Donald Trump. Then he broke with the Democratic Party and declared himself independent, even though he remains affine.

"What I promise to do, while traveling the country, is take the values ​​we are proud of here in Vermont – our belief in justice, community, grbadroots politics, municipal councils – and bring them all over the country "explained the Vermont Public Radio.

On Trump, he said that it was "a national shame" and a "pathological liar". But he did not stop there.

"I also think that it is a racist, badist, homophobic, xenophobic, somebody who earns points in politics attacking minorities, often undocumented immigrants", expanded.

Trump and Sanders were considered the "outsiders" of the 2016 campaign, and both had surprising growth.

In this year independence has garnered tremendous support, especially among young people, with a government program based on a universal health care system, a minimum wage of $ 15 an hour and a free university education.

But the truth is that the senator's career in politics is long. He was mayor of Burlington in the 1980s and arrived at the National Convention in 1990, when he was elected representative of Vermont.. He remained in the lower house until 2007, when he accepted the Senate, where he continues.

With information from AFP and Reuters