Vice-presidential candidate Francia Márquez has been a beneficiary of the Solidarity Income

With less than two months to go before the votes take place in which Colombians will decide who will be the candidates who will go to the second round to define the next president of Colombia, it came to light that the vice-presidential candidate of the Historical Pact has been one of the beneficiaries of the Solidarity Income, which aims to support citizens who are in a difficult economic situation and who categorize them as people in poverty or extreme poverty.

The complaint that Gustavo Petro's formula benefited from government bonds was made public by María Andrea Nieto, director of the El Control program, who seriously questioned whether Márquez received this contribution because it has been one of the biggest critics of all the policies implemented by the Government of Iván Duque.

“It turns out that the candidate who so denigrates the Colombian State seems to have been a beneficiary of the Solidarity Income program of the Department of Social Prosperity, which was created to transfer money to the most vulnerable households that did not have access to other state programs and that was created during the year of the pandemic in 2020,” Nieto noted. in El control.

the director of the program did not stop there and questioned whether the social leader is really still in a state of economic vulnerability, since she received 25 contributions equivalent to four million Colombian pesos: “If Francia Márquez's home was vulnerable during the year of the pandemic, she had every right to access resources of the State. But is it still a vulnerable home? When did you retire from Sisben three?”

Faced with the scandal W Radio, he noted that official information indicates that the vice-presidential formula was part of the Sisbén III system from 2013 until the entry into force of Sisbén IV in March 2021.

In addition, the station spoke with the Caucan leader and said: “They are looking for a way to trample on their image, but they are not going to succeed. She told us that having been in El Sisbén and receiving the Solidarity Income seems normal for any poor Colombian woman, and that even so she has been paying for her health as an independent for many years.”

For his part, another of those who came out to defend the candidate was Gustavo Petro, who wrote on Twitter: “The W discovered that France is economically poor and spiritually rich. They are surprised that people who are not economically powerful want political power.”

Along the same lines, Gustavo Bolívar, the head of the Senate list of the Historical Pact, came out in defense of the environmental leader, adding: “That a person who aspires to the vice-presidency of a country is so poor that he requires state aid, rather than criticism, should receive praise. As they are used to being governed by elites, mostly corrupt, they are terrified of a candidate who has Sisben.”

She is not the only one who has been in the eye of the hurricane these days, as Gustavo Petro was heavily criticized as his brother went to visit Iván Moreno, former mayor of Bucaramanga and former congressman convicted of the carousel case of recruitment, as well as one of the natural heirs of the flags of the National Alliance Popular —the party of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, his grandfather, whose defeat in the 1970 presidential election caused the formation of the M-19 guerrilla, which Petro joined.

Faced with this, the leader of Human Colombia assured that: “What he has suggested to us is to be a constructor of something that I have proposed, which is called social forgiveness. That is being discussed within prisons: what would be called social forgiveness. We could talk at length about this topic.”

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