Paloma Valencia referred to Gustavo Petro's attack on RCN journalist: “He took up arms, with a revolutionary ideology”

Election campaigns are underway, in less than two months people will know who will be their next president of the republic and the candidates, who have very tight agendas, are publicizing in many ways their campaign proposals to be elected by citizens. Social media also became the perfect setting to give your opinion in a clear and concise way to your followers.

The presidential candidate of the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petro, is one of those who has given the most to talk about. His opinions and interventions in the debates have generated controversy in some political sectors, however, recently a comment he made on an opinion column by David Ghitis in which he branded some RCN journalists as Neo-Nazis generated enormous controversy.

The candidate's triune had such an impact that the Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) referred to this situation and asked Petro to retract his comments on the media. “These stigmatisations are not new, they seriously harm the freedom of the press and by repetition they are interpreted as a smear campaign, for electoral purposes, against this medium. The fact that the candidate compares his critics with an ideology that was behind a holocaust is clearly a stigmatization that imposes great symbolic and political burdens and ends up reigniting violence.”

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The presidential candidate, despite the fact that he has not recanted because of what happened, said that, “I know they will call me a stigmatizer because I say neo-Nazi. One thing is expletive, another is systematic action to pursue and disappear a legitimate thought and political action, including its carriers. That's a crime. Do not disguise crime with freedom.”

The senator of the Democratic Center, Paloma Valencia, referred to this situation and through Twitter noted that Gustavo Petro is the one who has exercised the violence and rejected comments about the journalist and the media outlet in question.

“Petro vs. @ghitis is unacceptable. First because he is Jewish, but above all because talking about pension proposals is not a crime. Watch out for those who believe that thinking differently should lead to the extermination of the other, those who say they will “end uribism”,” the senator said on her social networks. However, he continued to make claims against the presidential candidate.

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“This same reflection should be made in Colombia with regard to the ideas of the “left-wing guerrillas” that in Colombia alone leave hundreds of thousands dead, thousands kidnapped, millions displaced, and also financed their “revolution” with drug trafficking,” Valencia said, who also said that “Petro goes out to stigmatize say that some citizens are neo-Nazis that they are not. He, on the other hand, took up arms, with a “revolutionary ideology” that has left millions dead to the world and thousands to Colombia. All ideologies that kill are bad, including Petro's.”

And he added in another triune: “Petro embodies the victory of the “armed struggle”, he is the representative of those who have considered that violence is a way to make politics... they are now called life,” said the senator who has openly opposed Gustavo Petro.

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