Senator John Milton Rodríguez's presidential candidacy has gone through several setbacks and now, with less than two months to go before his stay at the Casa de Nariño, Senator-elect Jonathan Pulido, better known as JoTape Hernandez, predicted what awaits him after the first round.
Rodríguez, who is the candidate of the Christian political party Colombia Justa Libres, represents another sector of the right, so the youtuber assured that the presidential candidate of the Team for Colombia, Federico 'Fico' Gutiérrez, will join the ballot.
“If he (John Milton Rodríguez) does not pass the second round, which is the obvious thing, he is going to join the campaign of Federico Gutiérrez and today I guarantee that this will happen,” Pulido said during an interview with journalist María Jimena Duzán.
The statements of JoTape, the most voted senator of the Centro Esperanza Coalition with Green Alliance, were recorded during the program 'A Fondo' led by the Colombian journalist. In this dialogue, the influencer said that he is not religious, but he is a Christian.
In clarifying his religious inclinations, the elected congressman took the opportunity to send a message to the country's believers, who have been linked for years to right-wing and traditional politics in Colombia.
Moreover, although he acknowledges that he is a faithful follower of Jesus, he says that he did not engage in politics with Christian parties because since time immemorial in the country, they have been allies of the Democratic Center, the party with which Iván Duque came to power in 2018 and which today is naturally led by former President Álvaro Uribe, today investigated by two crimes: procedural fraud and manipulation of witnesses.
“Parties that while they have been in Congress have colluded with Uribism,” Jota Pe added in his interview with Duzán.
It should be recalled that Hernández won more than 190,000 votes in the legislative elections of March 13 and became a political phenomenon as he became the third most voted senator in those elections, being second only to the Uribists Miguel Uribe and María Fernanda Cabal.
Just a few days ago he faced his first controversy after his party colleague, Antonio Sanguino, who burned himself in his bid to returning to the Senate in the next parliamentary term, he published some screenshots where Pulido Hernández, who is also an influencer, praised former prosecutor Alejandro Ordóñez, now Colombia's ambassador to the OAS and one of the figures of the traditional right.
In addition, Sanguino showed other controversial pronouncements by today's senator joining the Green Alliance. In them, he attacks presidential candidate Gustavo Petro, who says that on the day he dies, Colombia “will rest from so much populism and tares.”
Well, after those controversial pronouncements went viral on social media, the senator-elect spoke out, justified his old ideals and apologized to Gustavo Petro and Margarita Rosa de Francisco.
Through a Twitter video, Pulido said that he regrets being a “uribist” and says that he is sorry that he believed “in a deceiving uribism” and that is why he excused himself for what he thought previously.
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