Verónica Alcocer, wife of Gustavo Petro, clarifies whether she beat her husband out of jealousy when he was mayor of Bogotá

When Gustavo Petro was in charge of the mayor's office of Bogotá (2011-2015), there was a controversy surrounding his wife, Verónica Alcocer, because at that time it was presumed that she had beaten him in the middle of a fit of jealousy. In fact, several national media replied this fact, which was based on the complaint made by a former advisor to the Liévano Palace.

Leszli Kalli is the name of the adviser who was vetoed from the Mayor's Office at the express request of the spouse of the current presidential candidate, stating by the way (and in dialogue with La W), that it was neither Petro nor Alcocer who informed her of her retirement from the local house, but that she was informed of the decision by voice of Daniel Winograd, communications advisor of the district government.

Now, almost nine years later, the subject was dusted again in the middle of an interview that the sincelejana had with the magazine Bocas. There, the interviewer asked her “Where did the version that you beat your husband out of jealousy come from?” to which she confessed that, in fact, her husband had been hit.

In that talk, Alcocer indicated that the impact that caused her “an edema” occurred when she was in the United States. “They said it was with a heel, with a vase, with a vase. People are always going to talk. Let them talk,” said the businesswoman.

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He completed that response by saying that he has the dates when he left the country, and that by the time Petro had that incident, she really wasn't by his side. “Whenever you want, I'll show you my passport so you can compare dates. And so that they run out of the story,” he concluded.

Previously, Alcocer had been asked if she was jealous, she replied that she is not currently, but in her days as “just married, yes”, and she even took the opportunity to confess some of the things she has seen during the tours of the aspirant to the Casa de Nariño for the Historical Pact.

“Imagine yourself an increasingly well-known politician, how women are not going to approach him. There are people who have grabbed my husband's member in front of me (...) Yes. It's unfriendly, I don't like it. But stop balls at that? No. When I was jealous, I pouted, I changed my gesture. But not anymore. Absolutely not,” Alcocer García told the media outlet.

What was the result of Leszli Kalli's complaint?

When she was vetoed from the mayor's office, Daniel Winograd told her that “the mayor has thousands of problems, thousands of obligations to the city to have to account every day to the woman whether or not you see him. He no longer knows how to handle the situation, he leaves the mayor's office because he can't be here”, according to what she said in La W in 2013.

She even said that journalist Christian Puentes, who at that time also worked for the district, called her one morning and threatened to rape her.

Faced with this case, Gustavo Petro himself pointed out through his Twitter account that the journalist was removed from his post after that allegation of sexual harassment: “The journalist contractor Cristhian Puentes was once accused of sexual harassment was removed from his services to the District,” and added in that triune published on July 9, 2013, that “every official accused of sexual harassment has been removed from the District. I know of two cases and this has been done.”

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