Petro compares his political situation with the case of Pedro Castillo in Peru

Colombian President, Gustavo Petrocompared this Monday the situation he is experiencing due to the audios in which Armando Benedettiformer ambassador in Venezuelathreatened to reveal secrets of his electoral campaign, with that of the former Peruvian president Pedro Castillodismissed for trying to carry out a coup on December 7.

This was stated by Petro on Twitter, where he said that what his opponents are looking for is that he cannot present a shortlist in the coming months to choose the successor of Francisco Barbosa as the nation’s attorney general.

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“This is what they are looking for. that it is not possible to put a list against impunity. This is where it all begins. But they not only seek to prevent the government of change from presenting the fiscal shortlist, which they know will be a shortlist against impunity, but they are looking for the path that suffered Pedro Castillo”said the president.

Petro does not know the legitimacy of the president of Peru, Dina Boluartedespite the fact that she assumed the position constitutionally, since she was the vice president when Castillo was removed.

STATEMENTS BY BENEDETTI

Last night, Semana magazine published a series of audio messages sent by the former ambassador to Laura Sarabiaformer Chief of Staff, to express her disagreement with Petro’s delay in receiving him in the middle of the scandal of the interceptions phone calls to a babysitter.

Benedetti also threatened to reveal secrets of the financing of the Petro’s presidential campaignwho assured last night that it did not receive money from drug trafficking and that the Government has not done anything illegal.

He said Petro in his Twitter account, in his Government “nor have blackmail been accepted regarding public offices or contracts, nor have money been received in the campaign from people linked to drug trafficking, much less have figures such as 15,000 million pesos (about 3.5 million dollars) been handled outside our accounting”.

“I do not accept blackmailyes, nor do I see politics as a space of personal favors”the president said in a lengthy tweet.

In the audios, which have caused a stir in the country, the former ambassador also reminds Sarabia that he collected those “15,000 million pesos” for the campaign Petro and tells him that if he speaks up and counts who financed his campaign on the Atlantic coast, they will all end up in jail.

About, Petro also assured this Monday that Sarabia “He has received enormous pressure that he was unaware of”, hence “He must have suffered and he suffers a lot.”

In the two interviews Benedetti claims that he helped get donations to the campaign and that there were no irregularities. It is true, every time someone asked to donate or get donors, he was sent to the management, where they were always done according to the law, the filters”, expressed the president.

He added that his campaign management rejected “Many donations and, according to the criteria of the law, others were accepted.”

“Most of the financing of the campaign was carried out with loans from the commercial Bank”, stressed.

Source: Elcomercio

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