Alejandro Gaviria called Ingrid Betancourt an “opportunist”, following the approach of the candidate to the Democratic Center

In the midst of the controversy, through his Twitter account, former Minister Alejandro Gaviria had a new confrontation with the candidate of the Oxygen Green party, Ingrid Betancourt. Although he did not mention it directly in his post, many Twitter users suggested that it would be for the applicant.

“Hypocrite and opportunist,” Gaviria wrote on her social networks, because of the former senator's willingness to make an alliance as long as a red line is marked with the machines.

In response to Alejandro, Ingrid Betancourt pointed out that “this is the culture of violence and intolerance that leads to justifying accommodation with corruption. The machines, they don't have ideologies. Today with one, tomorrow with the other. Didn't you learn your lesson? ”.

According to the candidate, there may be rapprochement with the Democratic Center, under the condition of going against machinery. In addition, Betancourt indicated that former President Álvaro Uribe Velez is in a complicated situation:

The presidential candidate of the Green Oxygen party announced that she was building bridges with the Democratic Center party less than two months before the first presidential round is held in Colombia.

The former senator, who was part of the Centro Esperanza Coalition and announced her retirement weeks before the legislative elections were held, arguing that some of the candidates of the center alliance were being supported by the “political machineries”, indicated that through these approaches with the ruling party, they sought to “build a united front for the country, leaving machinery aside”.

Faced with this unexpected announcement by the presidential candidate, several politicians and opinion leaders spoke out, starting with the former president and natural leader of the Democratic Center, Álvaro Uribe, who said he was grateful to the former senator and stressed that it was “very important to advance the dialogue with her, her team and the party of government”.

In response to the message of the former president, the Oxygen Green candidate replied that from the center they were ready for a great national dialogue, while inviting us to form a great common front to promote reconciliation and against “machinery”, assuring that “in order to free Colombia from corruption it is important that we unite beyond ideologies”.

For her part, Senator María José Pizarro, of the Historical Pact, pointed out that for Betancourt the border was machinery, “all except those of Uribism”, which she considered regrettable and assured that they would defeat Uribism and “retrograde and corrupt hegemony.”

Also, the internationalist Laura Gil pointed out that the Oxygen Green candidate considered former president Álvaro Uribe a luxury interlocutor, “let him go and ask the RCN journalist if this man has machinery. What a big damage it does with so little.”

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