Gustavo Petro remembers the role Eduardo Pulgar played the day Paloma Valencia revealed the ‘Petrovideo’

Two years ago one of the episodes that cost the most to Senator Gustavo Petro’s political career took place. On November 28, 2018, while a political control debate was taking place against the then Attorney General Néstor Humberto Martínez, regarding Odebrecht, Senator Paloma Valencia revealed a video in which the leader of Human Colombia is seen receiving bundles of bills from a bag.

This December 2, Senator Petro recalled that that day was the congressman Eduardo Pulgar who was in charge of presiding over the session since he was the vice president of the Senate, before the absence for several minutes of the president of that corporation in that period, Ernesto Macías.

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“Eduardo Pulgar in the presidency of the Senate was the one who prevented me from responding to the video without audio that Paloma Valencia published in the plenary session. They did it to sabotage my debate on Odebrecht to prosecutor Néstor Humberto Martínez. A little game “Petro wrote on his Twitter account.

In the recording that rests on the Senate’s YouTube account, it is observed that the one who gives the floor to Senator Paloma Valencia is Pulgar, since it was her turn to speak. In her speech, the parliamentarian released the ‘Petrovideo’ alluding to “such a moral pedestal in which the promoters of 21st century socialism want to place themselves by setting fire to everything else because no one is useful other than them”.

Likewise, Valencia asked the President of the Senate to give him a few additional minutes to his intervention to leave some observations on what was revealed. After his intervention, Senator Pulgar had already left the chair of the presidency and in his place returned the senator Ernesto Macías, who refused to give Senator Petro a reply to explain his appearance in the recording.

“I remind you of something, former President Uribe asked for the reply and I asked him to wait. I have to give the reply as a regulation within the session, we will gladly give the reply later “said Macías at Gustavo Petro’s request.

In social networks, users also remember that Eduardo Pulgar was the interlocutor with Macías the day he made “a move” to the opposition on July 20, 2019 in the installation of ordinary sessions.

“It is our duty that they speak after the President … and then I ask the commission to accompany the President and get them out of here … This is my last little game as president “Ernesto Macías confessed to Eduardo Pulgar.

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One of the parliamentarians to react was Macías who wrote on his Twitter account: “All my solidarity with Senator Eduardo Pulgar and his family. I’m sorry for what happened and I hope that you can satisfactorily clarify your situation and move forward ”.