“Fico was given Uribe's steroids”: the reason for Gutiérrez's growth according to Sergio Fajardo

The presidential candidates Sergio Fajardo and Federico Gutiérrez had a hard crossing of questions in the Great Presidential Debate organized by the media network of RCN and La República, on the night of this holiday Monday; in which the political support that each one has received in his career and his current career was drawn to the fore. campaign.

Although network users mocked the physical similarities between the two former mayors of Medellin, they both marked their political differences in a discussion that exasperated until Enrique Gómez, another of the assistant candidates competing with the National Salvation movement.

The discussion ended when each of those present presented their position on the questions that revolve around the election results of the Congress of March 13. Gutiérrez assured that the count requested by the other parties must be met and the results of this new scrutiny should be endorsed.

Fajardo, for his part, blamed the government for the situation for co-opting state agencies and rejected that President Iván Duque had decorated Registrar Alexander Vega as the best official and his performance is now evidenced by the current results.

Although he did not mention Gutierrez, the former mayor of Medellín decided to replicate his response and, eager to discuss with Gustavo Petro, linked the candidate of the Centro Esperanza Coalition with the leader of the Historical Pact, for assuring that the government had caused mistrust in the Registry.

“Petro didn't come, but apparently he has a spokesman who is Sergio Fajardo. I would say to Sergio, it is time to let go of egos and vanities, the country is above. You simplify everything to some names and here what is above is democracy,” Gutiérrez said, adding: “Democracy is at stake and playing the game to those who do not know democracy and institutions such as Gustavo Petro, today apparently represented in Sergio, leaves one confused.”

The candidate of the Centro Esperanza Coalition was not silent in the face of the link with whom he has refused to have any kind of alliance in two presidential candidacies in which they are running as contenders.

“I like Federico very much and for a long time. But I've heard bad jokes and Federico's. That I am the spokesman for Gustavo Petro, what do you think! I don't know if they passed it on the iPad or the cell phone, but a bad joke and the one about telling my spokesman for Petro,” Fajardo said.

The former governor of Antioquia said that for four years, when he refused to support Petro in the second round and decided to vote blank, the Pact candidate has “insulted him in every possible way” and from there they have maintained a political confrontation that continues in the current campaign.

“I am not a spokesperson for anyone, here I come with a position, with a path traveled in life, with the transparency of my performances and I do not represent Petro whom I am going to defeat in the second round,” Fajardo said.

Instead, he questioned the support that Gutiérrez has received from the Democratic Center, to which he attributed the increase in voting intention that the Team for Colombia candidate has shown in the polls, going from 3% before the consultations and 19% now.

“Federico was given steroids in this consultation, the steroids of the national government and former president Uribe, who secretly said that we had to vote for him and that is why he explains that leap he showed us. Fico has been doped for more than a year,” Fajardo said.

Gutiérrez did not deny or confirm his closeness to these sectors, but he maintained that he accepts all the support in his campaign except for “corrupt and violent” ones. “But I'm the one who's going to make the decisions as president,” he said.

“I accompanied Sergio convinced that it was a good government and he has no complaints. I am not a candidate for either Duque or Uribe, I am a candidate for the people and I am going to tell them: Sergio, if someone was in your mayoral campaign it was José Obdulio Gaviria, then when they supported you they were good and if not, they are now bad,” Gutiérrez said.

At that time, Enrique Gómez intervened, who assumed the role of moderator and asked the two candidates to move from attacks to proposals. Fajardo accepted, but first said: “We cannot choose Gustavo Petro because it is irresponsible, because it is populist and for everything goes”.

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