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Senator Iván Cepeda, from the Polo, announced that leftist sectors are going to denounce the former presidential candidate of the Democratic Center Rafael Nieto, and nine members of the military, for their alleged links to the Army’s attacks.
Given this, Nieto assured that these statements have a political aspect, since Cepeda has no proof, since nothing he is saying is true. He said that what he is looking for is to muddy his name and that of the Democratic Center and that is why he hired a lawyer to take legal action against the left-wing congressman.
What responds to Senator Iván Cepeda’s announcement of what he is going to report to you?
I’m waiting for you to make the complaint. I have publicly asked him to show a single piece of evidence to support his accusation. He will not show it and he will not show it because he does not have it and he does not have it because what he says is false is not true.
What do you think Senator Cepeda is looking for with this?
What Cepeda seeks is to muddy the Military Forces, to muddy me personally, because I defend the Military Forces and through me to muddy the Democratic Center as a government party, to maintain that there were illegal actions by the Public Force that were destined to the ruling party. That is clearly his intention, but there is no support for such an accusation.
Where do you think Cepeda gets this from?
He does it, and he said it yesterday at the hearing of the Second Committee of the Senate, based on a gossip that News One gave five months ago. Literally like this, Noticias Uno said that it had received the version that I was the recipient of the information about the alleged attacks by Army intelligence. The newscast does not say who gave him that version and its director trilled publicly that they had the version and nothing else, and that they had no different proof. And it is based on that, which is a gossip, is that Cepeda launches himself to make such a statement
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Is this an accusation based on gossip?
There is no doubt that it is not serious, it is also irresponsible and in my opinion clearly contrary to the law, but its political intention blinds it and behind it it moves these affirmations. I challenge you again to present the evidence, to report me
Do you know if there is already a formal charge?
There has been no formal accusation. But, in addition, in this specific case it would be a crime that would be known ex officio, then the evidence can be made public, there is no difficulty. At this time there is no process or summary reservation, which publicly says what the evidence is, has none and will not present it because it does not exist.
And then what can you expect?
What he is going to say is that he learned from Noticias Uno.
Legally, what are you going to do?
I have already given power to Juan David Rivera to study all the pertinent legal actions against Iván Cepeda.
I am waiting for Cepeda to appear and file the complaint and show some of the alleged evidence that he may have. He himself has said that he does not have them “
And why do you end up involved in this matter?
Because the left and at the time Semana wanted to show that the information that might have come out of the Army was destined for the ruling party and in some way the government itself. In order to do that, they needed to find someone from the Democratic Center that they could use as a bridge between the government party and the Military Forces, and as I have been for many years as an adviser to the Ministry of Defense, the General Command and have had the best relations with the Police and the Military Forces, for 30 years; they probably found that the most pertinent to make that accusation was me, but there is no evidence, because the events never happened.
What role do you play today in the Democratic Center?
None, I am just a member of the Democratic Center and nothing else.
What is the possibility that they are seeing him with the face of a presidential candidate?
Most likely. But, as they know I am not wrinkling, that I confront them and also represent everything they do not want, a firm center-right position, a closeness and defense of the Military and Police Forces, a frontal attack on the radical left and the armed left and a position that does not admit a crack against drug trafficking; Well obviously I am a figure to attack.
But does that speech you are making sound like a presidential aspiration to me?
No, I am not a presidential candidate and I am not a presidential candidate. It seems to me that with a government that is going to be two years old, any presidential aspiration is premature.
Jumping into the water right now is clearly inopportune and it seems to me distracting because the concerns of Colombians are there in the pandemic and in the economy and not in the presidential aspirations
So for now his priorities are to resolve Senator Cepeda …
I am waiting for Cepeda to appear and file the complaint and show some of the alleged evidence that he may have. He himself has said that he does not have them, that he is simply based on what News One said. Here I am waiting for him to do so.
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