Federico Gutiérrez responds to the mayor of Cali for political fences

This Holy Thursday saw a confrontation between the presidential candidate for the Team for Colombia, Federico Gutiérrez, and the mayor of Cali, Jorge Iván Ospina, on account of the political hurdles that the former mayor of Medellín has in that city promoting candidacy.

Ospina announced that his administration carried out a citywide inspection to find out the number of billboards he has installed in the capital of Valle del Cauca 'Fico' Gutiérrez.

Through his social networks he posted the message, Ospina assured that the presidential candidate for the Team for Colombia, exceeded the number of hurdles allowed.

The response of the former mayor of Medellín was not long in coming, he said that Jorge Iván Ospina is making police for the candidate of the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petro, whom he is close to. He also questioned whether or not the Mayor's Office of Cali reviewed the fences that the leader of Humana Colombia has in Cali.

Senator Iván Cepeda announced, through his Twitter account, that he had filed criminal complaints against Colombian President Iván Duque and seven local mayors for alleged political intervention in favor of presidential candidate Federico Gutiérrez. According to Cepeda, the head of state “has not fulfilled his constitutional and legal duty to act neutrally during the presidential election.”

In addition to the Colombian president, the list of those accused includes Wilfredo Romero, mayor of the municipality of San Juan Nepomuceno, del Bolivar; Marco Adrián Artunduaga, Timana (Huila); Raquel Victoria Sierra, María La Baja (Bolivar); José Nicolás Ramos, Cicuco (Bolivar); Mario Javier Rodriguez, Santa Rosa de Lima (Bolivar); Eugenio Lobo, Arenal (Bolivar) and Edwin Puerta, Villanueva (Bolivar).

Iván Duque, emphasized Cepeda, was denounced to the Commission of Investigation and Prosecution of the House of Representatives. According to the congressman, the president, in the midst of the electoral contest, and despite the constitutional and legal prohibition of intervening in politics, “has repeatedly made public pronouncements that clearly demonstrate his intention to electorally harm presidential candidate Gustavo Petro.”

Cepeda assures that, in order to avoid the action of justice, Duque has omitted 'in an underground way' to mention the name of the presidential candidate for the center-left coalition Historic Pact, however, without making the literal mention, the senator comments, it is denoted that his actions are against Petro. “However, his statements are clear enough to know, without a doubt, that he alludes to him, and that he is, therefore, an absolutely determinable person,” the complaint states.

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