Sergio Fajardo shoots Federico Gutiérrez and Gustavo Petro: “They seek votes of corrupt people in prisons or clubs”

The presidential campaign once again turned to scandals, this time due to meetings with criminals who have been revealed by leaks and which gave Sergio Fajardo the opportunity to question the campaigns of Federico Gutiérrez and Gustavo Petro, his main contenders, according to the polls.

The Historical Pact campaign was immersed in controversy, due to the meeting held by Juan Fernando Petro, brother of the presidential candidate and who has campaigned for his favor, with a group of prisoners for corruption and parapolitics in La Picota prison, such as Iván Moreno, Álvaro 'El Gordo' García, among others.

As a result of that meeting, Gutierrez threw a whistle at the Petro coalition. “The Pact in La Picota ended up being “historic”, he wrote on his Twitter account. He had pointed out that allegedly, according to him, the senator had an agreement with the corrupt to offer social pardon in exchange for votes.

Petro, in his defense, responded to Gutiérrez with an image showing Alejandro Char, a member of his campaign as part of the Team for Colombia, and the convicted former governor of Antioquia Luis Alfredo Ramos. “The pact,” the candidate wrote.

“There will be no scandal in the media. But this photo represents much of the tragedy that Colombia has experienced and that must remain in the past. It is paramilitarism and corruption together, seeking to stay with Power. It means social backwardness, inequality and massacres,” he wrote later.

This is a photograph taken a month ago, at the beginning of March, when Char in the middle of the campaign for the presidential consultation met with Ramos at a bakery in Medellín to concretize that political sector's support for his campaign, as reported at the time by the newspaper El Colombiano.

Ramos was convicted in October 2021 by the Supreme Court of Justice, in the first instance, for a concert to commit crimes in order to promote illegal armed groups, determining that his political campaigns were supported by the paramilitaries.

According to the high court, in his ruling appealed by Ramos, he received support from the AUC, the Castaño brothers and the Metro Block and the Centauros Block, both politically and in money, in exchange for votes and with the guarantee that he would intercede to prevent the public forces from confronting them.

Thus the campaign has focused on the questionable bishops' meetings of candidates. While since the Historical Pact they denounce an encampment, Gutiérrez has not referred to Char and Ramos who became a trend again this weekend. On the other hand, Sergio Fajardo did take advantage of the controversy to throw pullas at both of them.

“Some agree with prisoners convicted of corruption who are still in prisons and the others with convicts who are free. Not everything is valid in politics, let alone seeking votes from the hands of corrupt people in prisons or clubs. Will they not be able to clearly reject such support? ”, wrote the candidate of the Esperanza Center Coalition with the photo of the meeting of Char and Ramos.

In a video, Fajardo said that “the Pact of La Picota is a gift disguised as social forgiveness that Petro offers to the corrupt people of our country.” The candidate of the Covenant replied to him to recall that he had defended him before the prosecution of the Prosecutor's Office for his management in the Government against him. To which the former mayor of Medellín told him that he had a selective memory and asked him for clear explanations.

“As it has to be clearer today than ever: WITH CORRUPTION NOTHING CAN BE DONE. Meeting with corrupt people, in prisons or clubs, to win an election, is the worst expression of all goes. The comeback advances,” Fajardo reiterated in another trill.

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