Several candidates for the House of Nariño reacted to the words last Saturday. Gustavo Petro, invited other presidential candidates Sergio Fajardo and Rodolfo Hernández to meet on Monday. for a so-called “election coup”.
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This is what Peter said at the demonstration in the public square in Barranquilla: “Here in this square, in this crowded street, all the political campaigns currently competing, Sergio Fajardo, Be on the lookout for Rodolfo Hernández’s campaign, the Historical Pact campaign. I invite you to meet on Monday, because on Tuesday you plan to go to the elections next Sunday, March 29. They plan to suspend elections, they plan to suspend, they plan to suspend the bodies that run the electoral regime in Colombia.”
This version was rejected by the National Government headed by the Minister of the Interior, Daniel Palacios: “Statements that talk about postponing or suspending elections are absolutely false. We ask candidates and teams not to produce false information. Transparent elections begin with the responsibility of candidates not to provide false information.”
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Likewise, the lawyer daisy hair He had touched on the subject earlier: “The dates of elections in Colombia are set by the Constitution and the Law, so they cannot be changed.”
Former mayor of Bucaramanga, Rodolfo Hernandez He replied to Petro and said: “Gustavo: 1. The fire cannot be extinguished with gasoline. 2. It is irresponsible to accept facts that do not exist. 3. I am a victim of hoops and I do not lend myself to making them.”
Likewise, although Peter does not directly refer to it, Federico Gutierrez, the latter spoke about the statement of the Historical Pact candidate: Learning that Petro had been quoted, candidate Gutiérrez replied, “Petro despises democracy and what he is doing is using democratic mechanisms to get himself elected and, once elected, killing democracy from within and we will not let him do that.” Candidates Rodolfo Hernández and Sergio Fajardo replied, “The obvious thing is that they are together.”
The presidential candidate of the Centro Esperanza Coalition, on his behalf, Sergio Fajardoand he said he wouldn’t talk to anyone.
On your own behalf John Milton Rodriguez He also spoke and said: Let us not accept any more grudges and grudges. Gustavo Petro’s reckless explanation is irresponsible because it contains no evidence. Now is the time to make peace and love each other.
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