Video: Francia Márquez doesn't like being asked about César Gaviria: “I think we're going to overcome that topic”

The vice-presidential candidate for the Historical Pact, Francia Márquez Mina, answered some questions from journalists about Liberal Party President César Gaviria and singer Marbelle, before entering the auditorium of the Tequendama Hotel in Bogotá, where Gustavo Petro had to arrive to receive the support of the Fuerza movement Citizen but she was absent due to symptoms of general malaise.

When asked what she thought about Petro's eventual meeting with Gaviria, she firmly replied that the media should stop giving the issue so much hype.

In addition, Francia Márquez said that Gustavo Petro will meet “with whom it is necessary to meet”, but that she will personally go to seek the votes of the communities.

When journalists mentioned to him that the leader of the Liberal Party had conditioned his support on being offered public excuses, Francia Márquez said she has nothing to excuse herself from. He also pointed out that Gaviria will only be accepted into the campaign if “he is willing to build collectively from the need to transform this country,” as will any other political leader who wants to join them.

In addition, the leader of Soy Porque Somos says she is confident of having the support of various minority sectors of the country: “young people, women, ethnic peoples, sexual and gender diversities, the people of the nobody and the nobodies”. She even dared to say that some journalists have told her that they support her even though they can't say it in public.

Francia Márquez also assured that she has no quarrels with the Vallecaucana singer Marbelle, who started a scandal days ago from her Twitter account by comparing the candidate and social leader with King Kong and publicly despising the ancestral embrace that Márquez had sent her in response to her expletive.

After sunrise with symptoms of general malaise, presidential candidate Gustavo Petro had canceled his participation in two events that would take place this Thursday: a debate at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and this event at the Hotel Tequendama.

Although Armando Benedetti did not want to confirm that Petro would be going through a flu situation, Francia Márquez did mention that Petro underwent a PCR test to rule out covid-19. He also added that, if that were the case, she would not be at risk of contagion because she has not had close contact with him these days.

Finally, Petro's press team announced on Thursday night that there was such a PCR test and it was negative, although the former mayor of Bogotá is still convalescing at home.

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