Representative of the Democratic Center announced that he will denounce Francia Márquez for insult and slander

Francia Márquez has positioned herself as one of the most important women in politics in Colombia, since she took the third highest vote in the consultations and then with the announcement that she would be the vice-presidential formula of Gustavo Petro, the current representative to the presidential elections of Pact Histórico, so these days she has given several statements to national media.

Last week, when he took out a space to hold an interview with Semana Magazine, he spoke about several topics of social interest, including those he spoke about the capital of Vallecaucana, which has become a focus of interest due to the various problems it has and there he appointed Christian Garcés, representative of the Chamber for the Democratic Center and noted that the politician used the term “clean up” and that it has negative connotations taking into account the social context, as well as Colombia's paramilitary history.

“Young people who were “cleaning” in the popular neighborhoods. Cleaning as Mr. Garcés said that, I think he is a representative of the Democratic Center at that time that they had to clean up the city. When they tell us that, in a city like Cali, which is the second city with the most Afro-descendant population after Salvador Bahia, in Brazil. They tell us that we must clean up the city and we have suffered the social cleansing of the paramilitary armed groups, what we see in that expression is a sentence, a death penalty, we see a president who does not place dialogue on a mistake he committed but places stigmatization,” Marquez said.

Once the interview was published, the politician of the governing party spoke on social networks and announced that he would file a complaint against the policy of the Historical Pact for insult and slander, because according to him, those words do not correspond to reality.

“Candidate @FranciaMarquezM: No more hate or lies to win the elections. I will file a criminal complaint and demand that you retract for your slander and insult. In the blockades we demand authority, regain public order and respect for the rights of all citizens,” Garcés wrote.

For now Márquez has not commented on the alleged demand and on the work of the representative of the Democratic Center. However, he did use his social networks to denounce that in recent days, like other members of his coalition, he has been threatened with death by the armed group “Black Eagles”.

In the triune, Gustavo Petro's vice-presidential formula asked President Iván Duque to guarantee the protection of his family AND the social leaders mentioned in the terrorist pamphlets

“It is not enough slander, racist demonstrations, but in less than a month I have been threatened with women twice, together with other social leaders. Mr. President Ivan Duque, I ask you to guarantee my physical integrity, that of my family and of the leaders mentioned here,” said Márquez.

In another triune he asked the Attorney General's Office, headed by Barbosa, to investigate the threats and to avoid impunity as in other cases of threats from this far-right terrorist group.

“In the same way, I hope that the Attorney General's Office will be able to investigate these facts. Hopefully this time impunity will not win,” said the environmental and human rights leader. Finally, Francia Márquez said that she has had problems with the functioning of the security scheme assigned to her.

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