Miguel Uribe Turbay could be a candidate for Congress – Congress – Politics

The former candidate for mayor of Bogotá and former Secretary of Government of the country’s capital Miguel Uribe Turbay will be on the list of the Democratic Center for the Senate in 2022.

This was confirmed to EL TIEMPO by former president Álvaro Uribe, head of the Democratic Center, who affirmed that there is an “agreement” for it. The scoop on the agreement had been revealed by W Radio early this Thursday.

“There is an agreement with Miguel for him to go on the list to the Senate of the Democratic Center. For many days I had said that we want to see him in the Senate and there is that agreement with him,” Uribe told this newspaper.

Uribe Turbay received the support of Uribe in his campaign for mayor last year, and his father, Miguel Uribe Londoño, was director of the Democratic Center in Bogotá, after serving as a councilor for the Conservative Party.

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In recent months, Miguel Uribe Turbay has coincided with some sectors of Uribe’s movement on issues such as, for example, criticism of the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, and his name was mentioned in different circles as a possible Minister of the Interior of President Iván Duque .

Last weekend, the anti-corruption exzar and director of the Anticorruption Institute, Camilo Enciso, stated in an opinion column that Uribe Turbay’s “political group” had benefited from some contracts related to the covid.

To this, Uribe Turbay responded by saying that Enciso was “a scoundrel bandit who, from an alleged moral pedestal and a small private office, stoned whoever is interested”, while pointing out that he was a “contractor” for the mayor, Claudia López. .

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