For asking for recounts in the elections, they denounce Daniel Quintero to the Attorney General's Office

Daniel Quintero's performances during the congressional elections on March 13 have won him a new controversy. The mayor of Medellín not only publicly revealed his vote for the Historic Pact consultation, but in recent days he joined the leaders of the left-wing consultation who demanded a count of votes to clarify the tables that the Covenant and Citizen Force had without votes. This prompted a complaint to the Office of the Attorney General for intervention in politics.

The denunciation came from one of his political rivals, the deputy of the Assembly of Antioquia Luis Peláez. The leader of the Dignidad party filed an action with the Public Ministry to open a formal investigation for a triune in which Quintero demanded that the counting of these tables be opened.

The message, coupled with the public display of the mayor's cards, prompted strong criticism from sectors seeking their recall. It should be recalled that Quintero has received the support of Gustavo Petro and other major voters of the left, who have denounced the revocation of his mandate as an intervention by the Paisa business community and sectors close to Álvaro Uribe.

Although Luis Peláez represents a center-left movement as Dignidad, he is one of Quintero's biggest opponents. In statements collected by Blu Radio, the deputy assured that his complaint is due “basically because he announces in a triune that he wants to defend the votes of a particular group, which also defends it in the nefarious mayor's office that he is doing in Medellín, but for that reason we denounce Mayor Daniel Quintero to the Attorney General's Office of the Nation for undue meddling in politics, can't do it.”

According to the complaint, published by the same station, the specific expression of the Historical Pact and Citizen Force movements in the midst of the scrutiny is a very serious offence according to article 48, paragraph 39 of law 734 of 2002.

Quintero said this Friday that he had not participated in politics with his statement. According to the president, “it is not participation in politics because the elections have already passed, I am talking about what has already happened. If this mayor's office has done anything, it is to give guarantees to everyone.” The Attorney General's Office has not responded to the complaint.

The president had another controversy on social networks this Friday, as he reacted to the debate in the newspapers El Colombiano and El Heraldo with the Red+ channel. According to Quintero, the regional newspaper of Medellín spends the time “inventing gossip” against its administration, with the support of businessmen “condemned by Hidroituango”.

“Every day El Colombiano gets a new headline, it's silly to open it because it doesn't matter. They only publish the investigations that open to us, that they themselves are the ones who report us, but they do not count the ones that close us. All the processes have been closed to us, because they are gossips that have a strategy and that is that the truth is not known and that those responsible for Hidroituango do not pay. That's why El Colombiano was bought by the businessmen condemned by the project,” said Mayor Quintero.

He also criticized presidential candidates Federico Gutiérrez and Sergio Fajardo, who in the middle of the debate rejected their performance as successor to both of them in the mayor's office of Medellín. “The misrule of Daniel Quintero. In two years and three months it is impossible to take it in a single truth,” Gutiérrez pointed out, and Fajardo stressed that he was “a good actor but he is a fake”, and even the candidate for Oxygen Green, Ingrid Betancourt indicated that the current administration “has taken away hope from the people of Antioquia.”

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