Sergio Fajardo responds to criticism of Uribe and Petro with a saying

The presidential candidate Sergio Fajardo already has his gaze fixed on the 2022 presidential election. In a recent interview with El Tiempo, the politician ruled out any alliance with Senator Gustavo Petro or someone from the Democratic Center.

Fajardo will once again seek to be a presidential candidate from the center and decisively move away from the “extremes”, which, he says, polarize politics.

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The interview caused the two opposing leaders Uribe and Petro to trill against the presidential candidate of the Greens.

On the one hand Petro assured that in 2018 he proposed to Fajardo to join forces but “He felt more comfortable co-governing with Uribe, Medellín and Antioquia”. Meanwhile, former President Uribe pointed out that Fajardo is Juan Manuel Santos’ presidential candidate for 2022.

Faced with these two criticisms, Sergio Fajardo equated Uribe and Petro with a popular saying: “Sancho bark, signal that we ride”. A saying that is usually used to indicate that something or someone is moving forward despite criticism, impediments and problems that may arise.

Fajardo said that 2022 was going to be a year of change and that it was going to be definitive to give a new direction to the country’s politics, depending on the candidate for which Colombians decide, referring to Uribism and the Democratic Center, movements with the which he assured had nothing to do with it.

“We are not part of the project of the Democratic Center or of Uribe. In politics we have always competed. That, moreover, would be a way of saying that because I am not with someone, I must be with the other, and that is precisely a wrong form of politics, it is the politics of polarization and extremes ”.

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In turn, the presidential candidate explained that the elections that would end the term of government of Iván Duque could mean the end of a political cycle that has been repeated for about 20 years without revealing new alternatives. “The chapter of the Democratic Center, which has governed practically all this century, has been in power and all the people who have been in the presidency have been associated with the Democratic Center, headed by former President Álvaro Uribe, who has been the person who has led them, is now closing ”, manifested.

The former mayor of Medellín included Uribe when speaking about it, because, he assured that although they call him ‘lukewarm’, he is not a politician of extremes but of the center, “I am outside the extremes and we have done so in politics for 21 years. In that political discussion, as a representative of Compromiso por Colombia and articulated with many people, we presented the country with a proposal and we hope that this is the one that will lead to Colombia. I want to be the person who leads that proposal ”.